| degradation of hydrocarbons in crude oil by the ascomycete pseudallescheria boydii (microascaceae). | four unique strains of pseudallescheria boydii were isolated from oil-soaked soils in british columbia and alberta and compared to strains from cattle dung and raw sewage. considerable variability in morphology, colony appearance, colony diameter, and temperature tolerance occurred among the strains. they also varied in the sporogenous states produced in culture; all strains had a scedosporium anamorph and either the graphium anamorph or cleistothecial teleomorph. conspecificity of the six isola ... | 1998 | 9606909 |