Mating type locus of Chinese black truffles reveals heterothallism and the presence of cryptic species within the T. indicum species complex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Belfiori, Beatrice ^a   Riccioni, Claudia ^a   Paolocci, Francesco ^a   Rubini, Andrea ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL REPRODUCTION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL STRUCTURES; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROTHALLISM; MAT GENE; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON; TUBER (GENUS); TUBER INDICUM; TUBER MELANOSPORUM;

ASCOMYCOTA; DNA, FUNGAL; GENETIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84892700330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082353     Document Type: Article

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