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Clonality and recombination in the life history of an asexual arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Nov 2010
den Bakker Henk C, Vankuren Nicholas W, Morton Joseph B, Pawlowska Teresa E
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi in the phylum Glomeromycota colonize roots of the majority of land plants and assist them in the uptake of mineral nutrients in exchange for plant-assimilated carbon. In the absence of sexual reproductive structures and with asexual spore morphology conserved since the Ordovician, Glomeromycota may be one of the oldest eukaryotic lineages that rely predominantly on asexual...
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