Insights into the diversity of choreotrich and oligotrich ciliates (Class: Spirotrichea) based on geneálogical analyses of multiple loci

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1901-1913

  Snoeyenbos West, Oona L O ^a   Salcedo, Tovah ^a   McManus, George B ^a   Katz, Laura A ^a  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ciliophora; Intraspecfic variation; Multi gene genealogies; Spirotrichs

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME DNA; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CILIATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENEALOGY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HALTERIA GRANDINELLA; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPIROTRICHEA; TAXONOMY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CILIOPHORA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TUBULIN; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CILIOPHORA; HALTERIA GRANDINELLA; OLIGOTRICHS; PROTOZOA; SPIROTRICHEA;

EID: 0036739159     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.02114-0     Document Type: Article

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