Black yeast habitat choices and species spectrum onhighaltitude creosote-treated railway ties

Fungal Biology

Volumn 117, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 692-696

  Döǧen, Aylin ^a   Ilkit, Macit ^b   de Hoog, G Sybren ^c,d,e,f,g  

^a MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^f SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chaetothyriales; Exophiala crusticola; Exophiala phaeomuriformis; Extremophily; Filamentous fungi

Indexed keywords

AGAR; FUNGAL DISEASE; HABITAT; INOCULATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; RAILWAY; TOXICITY; TRAIN; YEAST;

TURKEY;

CHAETOTHYRIALES; EXOPHIALA; EXOPHIALA HETEROMORPHA; FUNGI; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CHAETOTHYRIALES; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; EXOPHIALA CRUSTICOLA; EXOPHIALA PHAEOMURIFORMIS; EXTREMOPHILY; FILAMENTOUS FUNGI; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); YEAST;

CHAETOTHYRIALES; EXOPHIALA CRUSTICOLA; EXOPHIALA PHAEOMURIFORMIS; EXTREMOPHILY; FILAMENTOUS FUNGI;

ALTITUDE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TURKEY; YEASTS;

EID: 84885331118     PISSN: 18786146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2013.07.006     Document Type: Article

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