Cyanobacterial gardens: The liverwort Frullania asagrayana acts as a reservoir of lichen photobionts

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 352-357

  Cornejo, Carolina ^a   Scheidegger, Christoph ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; RNA 16S;

BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA BARCODING; FRULLANIA; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LICHEN (ORGANISM); MICROBIOLOGY; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; FRULLANIA; LICHENS; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84966648783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12386     Document Type: Article

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