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Recombination in Glomus intraradices, a supposed ancient asexual arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus.
BMC evolutionary biology - 15 Jan 2009
Croll Daniel, Sanders Ian R
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BACKGROUND: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are important symbionts of most plant species, promoting plant diversity and productivity. This symbiosis is thought to have contributed to the early colonisation of land by plants. Morphological stasis over 400 million years and the lack of an observed sexual stage in any member of the phylum Glomeromycota led to the controversial suggestion of AMF being ancients...
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