Functional and phylogenetic implications of septal pore ultrastructure in the ascoma of neolecta vitellina

Mycologia

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 802-813

  Healy, Rosanne A ^a   Arun Kumar, T K ^b   Hewitt, David A ^c   McLaughlin, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College   (India)

^c ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystal; Fungal evolution; Septal pore occlusion; Taphrinomycotina; Woronin body

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FUNGUS; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CELL VACUOLE; CLASSIFICATION; CRYSTAL; FUNGAL EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEPTAL PORE OCCLUSION; TAPHRINOMYCOTINA; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WORONIN BODY;

CRYSTAL; FUNGAL EVOLUTION; SEPTAL PORE OCCLUSION; TAPHRINOMYCOTINA; WORONIN BODY;

ASCOMYCOTA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHYLOGENY; VACUOLES;

EID: 84881325610     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/12-347     Document Type: Article

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