Convergent evolution masks extensive biodiversity among marine coccoid picoplankton

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 99-107

  Potter, D ^a,c   Lajeunesse, T C ^a,d   Saunders, G W ^b,e   Anderson, R A ^a  

^a BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

18S rRNA; green algae; haptophyte algae; heterokont algae; phylogeny

Indexed keywords

COCCOID PICOPLANKTON; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PICOPLANKTON; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ALGAE; COCCOIDEA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0030621061     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018379716868     Document Type: Article

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