ARDRA and RAPD-fingerprinting reject the sibling species concept for the ciliate Paramecium caudatum (Ciliophora, Protoctista)

Zoologica Scripta

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 75-82

  Stoeck, Thorsten ^a   Welter, Harald ^b   Seitz Bender, Dagmar ^b   Kusch, Jürgen ^b   Schmidt, Helmut J ^b  

^a SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARAMECIUM; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY;

PARAMECIUM AURELIA; PARAMECIUM CAUDATUM;

EID: 0034094990     PISSN: 03003256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1463-6409.2000.00031.x     Document Type: Article

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