The diversity of oomycetes on crayfish: Morphological vs. molecular identification of cultures obtained while isolating the crayfish plague pathogen

Fungal Biology

Volumn 117, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 682-691

  Kozubikova Balcarova, Eva ^a   Koukol, Ondřej ^a   Martín, María P ^b   Svoboda, Jiří ^a   Petrusek, Adam ^a   Diéguez Uribeondo, Javier ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aphanomyces astaci; Internal transcribed spacer; Oogonia; Oomycota; Pathogen vectors; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

CRAYFISH; CUTICLE; FUNGUS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PATHOGEN; PEST OUTBREAK; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

APHANOMYCES; APHANOMYCES ASTACI; ASTACOIDEA; OOMYCETES; SAPROLEGNIA; SAPROLEGNIA AUSTRALIS; SAPROLEGNIA FERAX; SAPROLEGNIALES;

FUNGAL DNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL; APHANOMYCES ASTACI; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRAYFISH; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OOMYCETES; PATHOGEN VECTORS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCING;

APHANOMYCES ASTACI; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; OOGONIA; OOMYCOTA; PATHOGEN VECTORS; SEQUENCING;

ANIMALS; ASTACOIDEA; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOMYCETES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84885297239     PISSN: 18786146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2013.07.005     Document Type: Article

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