Genetic diversity of sterile cultured Trebouxia photobionts associated with the lichen-forming fungus Xanthoria parietina visualized with RAPD-PCR fingerprinting techniques

Lichenologist

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 825-840

  Nyati, Shyam ^a,b   Werth, Silke ^c   Honegger, Rosmarie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS); Population genetics; Teloschistes chrysophthalmus; Trebouxia arboricola; Trebouxia decolorans; Trebouxia gelatinosa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893134033     PISSN: 00242829     EISSN: 10961135     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0024282913000546     Document Type: Article

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