Snow algae of the sierra nevada, spain, and high atlas mountains of Morocco

International Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-42

  Duval, Brian ^a   Duval, Edilma ^a,b   Hoham, Ronald W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

Algal distribution; Alpine environments; Chlamydomouas; Chloromonas; Snow algae

Indexed keywords

SNOW;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CLASSIFICATION; GEOGRAPHY; GREEN ALGA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOROCCO; RED ALGA; SPAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALGAE, GREEN; ALGAE, RED; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; CHLAMYDOMONAS; GEOGRAPHY; MOROCCO; SNOW; SPAIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033085572     PISSN: 11396709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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