Quantitative PCR Reveals Strong Spatial and Temporal Variation of the Wasting Disease Pathogen, Labyrinthula zosterae in Northern European Eelgrass (Zostera marina) Beds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Bockelmann, Anna Christina ^a   Tams, Verena ^a   Ploog, Jana ^a   Schubert, Philipp R ^a   Reusch, Thorsten B H ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1;

ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; LABYRINTHULA ZOSTERAE; LABYRINTHULIDA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT PARASITIC PLANT DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPRING; SUMMER; WINTER; ZOSTERA MARINA; ZOSTERACEAE;

ENDOPHYTES; EUROPE; PLANT DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRAMENOPILES; ZOSTERACEAE;

LABYRINTHULA; LABYRINTHULA ZOSTERAE; PROTISTA; ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 84877054103     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062169     Document Type: Article

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