Early Diverging Fungi: Diversity and Impact at the Dawn of Terrestrial Life

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue , 2017, Pages 41-60

  Berbee, Mary L ^a   James, Timothy Y ^b   Strullu Derrien, Christine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AM mycorrhiza; Evolution; Fossil; Fungi; Land plants; Phylogenomics

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALGA; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BLASTOCLADIOMYCOTA; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; CLADISTICS; DECOMPOSER; EMBRYOPHYTA; FOSSIL; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GLACIATION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MUCOROMYCOTA; NONHUMAN; PALEOCLIMATE; PHAGOTROPH; PHYLOGENOMICS; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTIST; SAPROTROPH; STREPTOPHYTA; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; WEATHERING; ZOOPAGOMYCOTA; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; GENETIC VARIATION;

EID: 85029308448     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: 15453251     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-micro-030117-020324     Document Type: Article

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