A new chytridiomycete fungus intermixed with crustacean resting eggs in a 407-millionyear-old continental freshwater environment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Strullu Derrien, Christine ^a   Goral, Tomasz ^a   Longcore, Joyce E ^b   Olesen, Jorgen ^c   Kenrick, Paul ^a   Edgecombe, Gregory D ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRANCHIOPODA; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; FOSSIL; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; LOWER DEVONIAN; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; ANIMAL; CRUSTACEA; ECOSYSTEM; EGG; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

FRESH WATER;

ANIMALS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; CRUSTACEA; ECOSYSTEM; EGGS; FOSSILS; FRESH WATER;

EID: 85006129646     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0167301     Document Type: Article

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