Widespread phagocytosis of ciliates and other protists by marine mixotrophic and heterotrophic thecate dinoflagellates

Journal of Phycology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 279-285

  Jacobson, Dean M ^a   Anderson, Donald M ^b  

^a Whitworth College   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Alexandrium ostenfeldii; Amylax sp.; Ceratium longipes; ciliates; food vacuole ultrastructure; Gonyaulax diegensis; heterotrophic dinoflagellates; mixotrophy; phagocytosis; Prorocentrum micans; Pyrrophyta; Scrippsiella sp.

Indexed keywords

ALEXANDRIUM OSTENFELDII; AMYLAX; CERATIUM LONGIPES; CILIOPHORA; DINOPHYCEAE; DINOPHYSIS; EUKARYOTA; GONYAULAX DIEGENSIS; PROROCENTRUM MICANS; PROTISTA; SCRIPPSIELLA SP.;

EID: 0029812885     PISSN: 00223646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3646.1996.00279.x     Document Type: Article

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