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Matthias Lutz1, Kálmán Vánky, Marcin Piątek

  • 1Evolutionäre Ökologie der Pflanzen, Institut für Evolution und Ökologie, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 1, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany;

IMA Fungus
|January 29, 2013
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Keywords:
BasidiomycotaBiogeographyMolecular phylogeneticsPlant pathogensSchoenusUstilaginales

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