Assessing population structure and host specialization in lichenized cyanobacteria

New Phytologist

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 557-566

  O'Brien, Heath E ^a,b   Miadlikowska, Jolanta ^a   Lutzoni, François ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Geographic mosaic; Nostoc; Peltigera; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; CYANOBACTERIUM; FUNGUS; GENOTYPE; LICHEN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPECIALIZATION; SYMBIOSIS;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LICHEN (ORGANISM); LIGHT; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SYMBIOSIS;

ALLELES; CYANOBACTERIA; GENETIC LOCI; GEOGRAPHY; LICHENS; LIGHT; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

CYANOBACTERIA; FUNGI; NOSTOC; PELTIGERA;

EID: 84875553454     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12165     Document Type: Article

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