Ecological specialization of two photobiont-specific maritime cyanolichen species of the genus lichina

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Ortiz Álvarez, Rüdiger ^a   De Los Ríos, Asunción ^b   Fernández Mendoza, Fernando ^c   Torralba Burrial, Antonio ^d   Pérez Ortega, Sergio ^b  

^a CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d Biosfera Consultoría Medioambiental ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHYCOCYANIN; RNA 16S; FRESH WATER; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CYANOBACTERIUM; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; LICHINA CONFINIS; LICHINA PYGMAEA; MARINE BIOLOGY; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; RIVULARIA; ASCOMYCETES; BAYES THEOREM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; LICHEN (ORGANISM); MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SYMBIOSIS;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CYANOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; GENETIC SPECIATION; HAPLOTYPES; LICHENS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PHYCOCYANIN; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SPAIN; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84941364920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132718     Document Type: Article

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