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SUBMITTER: Maba DL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4500078 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Maba Dao Lamèga DL Guelly Atsu K AK Yorou Nourou S NS Verbeken Annemieke A Agerer Reinhard R
IMA fungus 20150324 1
Despite the crucial ecological role of lactarioid taxa (Lactifluus, Lactarius) as common ectomycorrhiza formers in tropical African seasonal forests, their current diversity is not yet adequately assessed. During the last few years, numerous lactarioid specimens have been sampled in various ecosystems from Togo (West Africa). We generated 48 ITS sequences and aligned them against lactarioid taxa from other tropical African ecozones (Guineo-Congolean evergreen forests, Zambezian miombo). A Maximu ...[more]