Paramecium morphometric analysis and taxonomy

Acta Protozoologica

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-14

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

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Morphometry; Paramecium; Subgroups; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRICS; PARAMECIUM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

PARAMECIUM AURELIA; PARAMECIUM BIAURELIA; PARAMECIUM BURSARIA; PARAMECIUM CALKINSI; PARAMECIUM CAUDATUM; PARAMECIUM DUBOSCQUI; PARAMECIUM JENNINGSI; PARAMECIUM MULTIMICRONUCLEATUM; PARAMECIUM NEPHRIDIATUM; PARAMECIUM PENTAURELIA; PARAMECIUM POLYCARYUM; PARAMECIUM PUTRINUM; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PARAMECIUM WOODRUFFI;

EID: 0034013270     PISSN: 00651583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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