Brackish water Paramecium species and Paramecium polycaryum. Morphometrical analysis and some biological peculiarities

Acta Protozoologica

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 105-117

  Fokin, Sergei I ^a   Chivilev, Sergei M ^a  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Brackish water species; Ciliates; Morphometry; P. duboscqui; P. nephridiatum; P. polycaryum; P. woodruffi; Paramecium calkinsi; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES AND PARAMETERS; CELL ACTIVITY; EUCLIDEAN METRIC DISTANCE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MORPHOMETRICS; PARAMECIUM CALKINSI; PARAMECIUM DUBOSCQUI; PARAMECIUM NEPHRIDIATUM; PARAMECIUM POLYCARYUM; PARAMECIUM; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0032930286     PISSN: 00651583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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