Leaf-associated fungal diversity in acidified streams: Insights from combining traditional and molecular approaches

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2145-2156

  Clivot, Hugues ^a,b   Cornut, Julien ^a,b,c   Chauvet, Eric ^b,c   Elger, Arnaud ^b,c   Poupin, Pascal ^a,b   Guérold, François ^a,b   Pagnout, Christophe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Institut National Polytechnique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALNUS; ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; HYPHOMYCETES;

RNA 18S;

ALDER; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BASIDIOMYCETES; BIOREMEDIATION; CLASSIFICATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETICS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAF; RIVER;

ALNUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; RIVERS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S;

EID: 84903792743     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12245     Document Type: Article

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