Insights into intrathalline genetic diversity of the cosmopolitan lichen symbiotic green alga Trebouxia decolorans Ahmadjian using microsatellite markers

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 54-60

  Dal Grande, Francesco ^a   Alors, David ^b   Divakar, Pradeep K ^b   Bálint, Miklós ^a   Crespo, Ana ^b   Schmitt, Imke ^a,c  

^a SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anaptychia ciliaris; Microsatellite; Population; Symbiosis; Trebouxia; Xanthoria parietina

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANAPTYCHIA CILIARIS; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GREEN ALGA; MICROSATELLITE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION; SYMBIOSIS; TREBOUXIA; XANTHORIA PARIETINA;

ANAPTYCHIA CILIARIS; MICROSATELLITE; POPULATION; SYMBIOSIS; TREBOUXIA; XANTHORIA PARIETINA;

ASCOMYCOTA; CHLOROPHYTA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84893187068     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.12.010     Document Type: Article

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