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Sordaria fimicola-like ascomycete isolated from Pinus coulteri needles in Slovakia

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This is the first report of Sordaria fimicola-like ascomycete which was encountered during a diversity study of injured tissues of coulter pine in Slovakia. The fungus was identified as Sordaria fimicola by morphological analyses. Sequence analysis of internal transcribed spacer region (ITS) showed that the fungus is highly related to the ITS sequences of several S. fimicola isolates documenting wide ecological valence and geographical distribution of S. fimicola-like ascomycetes.

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Supported by the Scientific Grant Agency of Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic and Slovak Academy of Sciences – VEGA, Project No. 2/0077/18.

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  1. Department of Plant Pathology and Mycology, Institute of Forest Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Akademická 2, 949 01, Nitra, Slovak Republic

    Helena Ivanová

  2. Institute of Biology and Ecology, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic

    Anna Onderková & Peter Pristaš

  3. Institute of Animal Physiology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovak Republic

    Peter Pristaš

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Ivanová, H., Onderková, A. & Pristaš, P. Sordaria fimicola-like ascomycete isolated from Pinus coulteri needles in Slovakia. Biologia 73, 553–559 (2018). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11756-018-0071-0

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