Cytology and molecular phylogenetics of Monoblepharidomycetes provide evidence for multiple independent origins of the hyphal habit in the Fungi

Mycologia

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 710-728

  Dee, Jaclyn M ^a   Mollicone, Marilyn ^b   Longcore, Joyce E ^b   Roberson, Robert W ^c   Berbee, Mary L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Ancestral state reconstruction; Chytridiomycota; Chytrids; Evolution; Hyphae; Light microscopy; Microtubules; Spitzenk rper

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; CYTOLOGY; FUNGUS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS;

CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; HARPOCHYTRIUM; MONOBLEPHARIDALES; OEDOGONIOMYCES;

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA;

CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HYPHAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84942446664     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/14-275     Document Type: Article

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