Capturing the population structure of microparasites: Using ITS-sequence data and a pooled DNA approach

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 918-928

  Giessler, Sabine ^a   Wolinska, Justyna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Caullerya mesnili; DNA pooling; Ichthyosporea; Intragenomic variation; ITS region; Population structure; Statistical parsimony network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881583350     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12144     Document Type: Article

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