A crypthecodinium cohnii-like dinoflagellate feeding myzocytotically on the unicellular red alga porphyridium sp.

European Journal of Phycology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 133-140

  Ucko, Michal ^a,b   Elbrächter, Malte ^c   Schnepf, Eberhard ^d  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR MARICULTURE   (Israel)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crypthecodinium cohnii like dinoflagellate; Defecation; Fine structure; Food uptake; Life cycle; Myzocytosis; Porphyridium sp.; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; DEFECATION; DINOFLAGELLATE; DINOFLAGELLATES; FEEDING MECHANISM; FOOD UPTAKE; MYZOCYTOSIS; PREDATION; RED ALGAE; TAXONOMY;

CRYPTHECODINIUM COHNII; PORPHYRIDIUM;

EID: 0031284619     PISSN: 09670262     EISSN: 14694433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09670269710001737059     Document Type: Article

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