Knufia aspidiotus sp. nov., a new black yeast from scale insects

Phytotaxa

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 39-50

  He, Fan ^a,b   Lin, Bin ^a,b   Sun, Jing Zu ^b   Liu, Xing Zhong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Morphology; New species; Phylogeny; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890413320     PISSN: 11793155     EISSN: 11793163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.153.1.2     Document Type: Article

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