Taxonomic re-examination of a Chinese strain labeled 'Eudorina sp.' (Volvocaceae, Chlorophyta) based on morphological and DNA sequence data

Phycological Research

Volumn 46, Issue SUPPL., 1998, Pages 63-70

  Nozaki, Hisayoshi ^a   Song, Lirong ^c   Liu, Yongding ^c   Hiroki, Mikiya ^b   Watanabe, Makoto M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

5 Bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase (rbcL) gene; Chlorophyta; Eudorina; Large subunit of ribulose 1; Molecular phylogeny; Morphology; Taxonomy; Volvocaceae; Yamagishiella

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BASE PAIRING; CHINA; CHLOROPLAST; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EUDORINA; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; MATRIX; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; RIBULOSE 1,5 BIPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; RIBULOSE 1,5 BIPHOSPHATE OXYGENASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; VOLVOX;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; EUDORINA; EUDORINA SP.; EUDORINA UNICOCCA; EUKARYOTA; MYXOGASTRIA; PLEODORINA; VOLVOX; YAMAGISHIELLA; YAMAGISHIELLA UNICOCCA;

EID: 0031825152     PISSN: 13220829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1835.1998.tb00273.x     Document Type: Article

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