Early molecular investigations of lichen-forming symbionts: 1986-2001

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2004, Pages 273-301

  DePriest, Paula T ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Algae; Coevolution; Fungi; Molecular systematics; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

CLASSIFICATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTRON; LICHEN; LICHEN FORMING SYMBIONT; LICHENOID ERUPTION; LIFESTYLE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS; NATURAL SELECTION; NOMENCLATURE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPLICEOSOME; SYMBIONT;

ALGAE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; INTRONS; LICHENS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIA; FUNGI;

EID: 9244253234     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.58.030603.123730     Document Type: Review

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