Phylogenetic diversity of culturable fungi in the Heshang Cave, central China

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue OCT, 2015, Pages

  Man, Baiying ^a   Wang, Hongmei ^a   Xiang, Xing ^a   Wang, Ruicheng ^a   Yun, Yuan ^a   Gong, Linfeng ^a,b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b SOA Fujian Collaborative Innovation Center for Exploitation and Utilization of Marine Biological Resources Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic   (China)

Author keywords

Culturable fungi; Fungal diversity; ITS sequences; The Heshang Cave

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; ASPERGILLUS; BASIDIOMYCETES; CAVE; CHINA; COLONY FORMING UNIT; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; FUNGUS ISOLATION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PAECILOMYCES; PENICILLIUM; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRICHODERMA; ZYGOMYCETES;

EID: 84946826714     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01158     Document Type: Article

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