Fungal Endophytes of Aquatic Macrophytes: Diverse Host-Generalists Characterized by Tissue Preferences and Geographic Structure

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 735-747

  Sandberg, Dustin C ^a   Battista, Lorna J ^a   Arnold, A Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; PENICILLIUM;

BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGUS; GEOGRAPHY; LAKE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SYMBIOSIS; UNITED STATES;

ARIZONA; BIODIVERSITY; ENDOPHYTES; FUNGI; GEOGRAPHY; LAKES; PLANTS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84898547705     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-013-0324-y     Document Type: Article

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