Macroecology of microbes - Biogeography of the glomeromycota

Mycorrhiza: State of the Art, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Eco-Function, Biotechnology, Eco-Physiology, Structure and Systematics (Third Edition)

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 529-563

  Chaudhary, V B ^a   Lau, M K ^a   Johnson, N C ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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