Evidence for a facultative mutualist nutritional relationship between the green coccoid alga Bracteacoccus sp. (Chlorophyceae) and the zoosporic fungus Rhizidium phycophilum (Chytridiomycota)

Fungal Biology

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 319-328

  Picard, Kathryn T ^a   Letcher, Peter M ^b   Powell, Martha J ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bracteacoccus; Chytrid; Facultative mutualism; Symbiosis; Zoosporic fungi

Indexed keywords

ALGA; CHITIN; FITNESS; FUNGUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; MUTUALISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARASITISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SAPROTROPHY; SYMBIOSIS;

ARTICLE; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; CLASSIFICATION; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETICS; GREEN ALGA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

CHLOROPHYTA; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SPORES, FUNGAL; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; BRACTEACOCCUS; CHLOROPHYCEAE; CHLOROPHYTA; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; COCCOIDEA; FUNGI; RHIZIDIUM;

EID: 84878485293     PISSN: 18786146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2013.03.003     Document Type: Article

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