Gymnodinium chlorophorum, a new, green, bloom-forming dinoflagellate (Gymnodiniales, Dinophyceae) with a vestigial prasinophyte endosymbiont

Phycologia

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 381-393

  Elbrächter, Malte ^a   Schnepf, Eberhard ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 0001534618     PISSN: 00318884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-35-5-381.1     Document Type: Article

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