Isolation and Screening of Black Fungi as Degraders of Volatile Aromatic Hydrocarbons

Mycopathologia

Volumn 175, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 369-379

  Isola, Daniela ^a   Selbmann, Laura ^a   de Hoog, G Sybren ^b   Fenice, Massimiliano ^a   Onofri, Silvano ^a   Prenafeta Boldú, Francesc X ^c   Zucconi, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^c IRTA   (Spain)

Author keywords

2, 6 dichlorophenol indophenol; Biodegradation; Chaetothyriales; Enrichment method; Toluene

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; CARBON; FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLLUTANT;

ASCOMYCOTA; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARBON; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CHAETOTHYRIALES; EXOPHIALA; FUNGI;

EID: 84878540360     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-013-9635-2     Document Type: Article

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