The basal position of scaly green flagellates among the green algae (Chlorophyta) is revealed by analyses of nuclear-encoded SSU rRNA sequences

Protist

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 367-380

  Nakayama, Takeshi ^a   Marin, Birger ^b   Kranz, Harald D ^c   Surek, Barbara ^d   Huss, Volker A R ^a   Inouye, Isao ^a   Melkonian, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; COCCOIDEA; CYMBOMONAS; EUKARYOTA; HALOSPHAERA; MAMIELLA; MANTONIELLA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); MICROMONAS; NEPHROSELMIS; PRASINOPHYCEAE; PSEUDOSCOURFIELDIA; PTEROSPERMA; PYCNOCOCCUS; PYCNOCOCCUS PROVASOLII; PYRAMIMONAS; SCHERFFELIA; TETRASELMIS; VIRIDIPLANTAE;

EID: 0032423364     PISSN: 14344610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1434-4610(98)70043-4     Document Type: Article

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