Extremotolerant fungi from alpine rock lichens and their phylogenetic relationships

Fungal Diversity

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 119-142

  Muggia, Lucia ^a,b   Fleischhacker, Antonia ^a   Kopun, Theodora ^a   Grube, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Black fungi; Endolichenic; Lichenicolous; Life style; Phylogeny; Symbioses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954522918     PISSN: 15602745     EISSN: 18789129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13225-015-0343-8     Document Type: Article

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