Diversity of culturable soil micro-fungi along altitudinal gradients of eastern Himalayas

Mycobiology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 151-158

  Devi, Lamabam Sophiya ^a   Khaund, Polashree ^a   Nongkhlaw, Fenella M W ^a   Joshi, S R ^a  

^a NORTH EASTERN HILL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

18S rDNA; Altitude; Diversity indices; Microfungal diversity; Richness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875184778     PISSN: 12298093     EISSN: 20929323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5941/MYCO.2012.40.3.151     Document Type: Article

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