Ultrastructural analysis of viral infection in the brown-tide alga, Aureococcus anophagefferens (Pelagophyceae)

Phycologia

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 300-306

  Gastrich, Mary Downes ^a   Anderson, O Roger ^a   Benmayor, Sharon S ^b   Cosper, Elizabeth M ^c  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Coastal Environmental Studies Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; AUREOCOCCUS ANOPHAGEFFERENS; EUKARYOTA; MIRIDAE; PELAGOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0032324287     PISSN: 00318884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-37-4-300.1     Document Type: Article

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