Mountain tips as reservoirs for new rock-fungal entities: Saxomyces gen. nov. and four new species from the Alps

Fungal Diversity

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 167-182

  Selbmann, L ^a   Isola, D ^a   Egidi, E ^a,c   Zucconi, L ^a   Gueidan, C ^b   De Hoog, G S ^c   Onofri, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dothideomycetes; Extremotolerance; Microcolonial fungi; Multilocus phylogeny

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898905395     PISSN: 15602745     EISSN: 18789129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13225-013-0234-9     Document Type: Article

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