The genus Meira: Phylogenetic placement and description of a new species

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1097-1106

  Rush, Tomas Allen ^a   Aime, M Catherine ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acaropathogenic fungi; Entomopathogens; Mites; Phylloplane yeasts; Smut fungi

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME DNA;

ACAROMYCES; ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; BRACHYBASIDIACEAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOBASIDIACEAE; ENDOPHYTE; EXOBASIDIALES; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; MAGNOLIACEAE; MEIRA (GENUS); MEIRA MILTONRUSHII; NEW SPECIES; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; YEAST;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENES, RRNA; MAGNOLIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UNITED STATES;

ACARI; ACAROMYCES; BRACHYBASIDIACEAE; CRYPTOBASIDIACEAE; EXOBASIDIALES; FUNGI; MAGNOLIA; MEIRA;

EID: 84876669441     PISSN: 00036072     EISSN: 15729699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10482-013-9889-1     Document Type: Article

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