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Acta Biologica Hungarica

, Volume 56, Issue 3–4, pp 345–357 | Cite as

Genotypic Analysis of Variability in Zygomycetes

A Mini-Review
  • M. TakóEmail author
  • Á. Csernetics
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Abstract

Different types of molecular markers are available for use in evolutionary and population studies of microscopic fungi. These approaches have proved their merits and have been successfully applied to a wide range of fungal species belonging in the Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes. Species in the class Zygomycetes have been rather neglected from this aspect. This review discusses the information available from investigations of the genotypic variability in this group of fungi.

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Genetic variability molecular markers Zygomycetes 
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