Light microscope studies on coccolithophorids from the western mediterranean sea, with notes on combination cells of daktylethra pirus and syracosphaera pulchra

Plant Biosystems

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 3-27

  Saugestad, A H ^b,c   Heimdal, B R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c Bergen College   (Norway)

Author keywords

Coccolithophorids; Light microscopy; Western Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

COCCOLITHACEAE; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; HAPTOPHYCEAE; SYRACOSPHAERA; SYRACOSPHAERA PULCHRA; SYRACOSPHAERACEAE;

EID: 0036212510     PISSN: 11263504     EISSN: 17245575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11263500212331358491     Document Type: Article

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