The sections of alternaria: Formalizing species-group concepts

Mycologia

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 530-546

  Lawrence, Daniel P ^a   Gannibal, Philipp B ^b   Peever, Tobin L ^c   Pryor, Barry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b ALL RUSSIAN INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (Russian Federation)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternaria; Morphology; Phylogenetics; Species groups; Systematics

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; FUNGUS; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; RECONSTRUCTION; RELATEDNESS; SPORULATION; TAXONOMY;

FUNGAL DNA;

ALTERNARIA; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES-GROUPS; TAXONOMY;

ALTERNARIA; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIES-GROUPS; SYSTEMATICS;

ALTERNARIA; DNA, FUNGAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84880710539     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/12-249     Document Type: Article

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