Comparative approaches to the taxonomy of the genus Galdieria merola (Cyanidiales, Rhodophyta)

Cryptogamie, Algologie

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 13-32

  Pinto, Gabriele ^a   Albertano, Patrizia ^b   Ciniglia, Claudia ^a   Cozzolino, Salvatore ^a   Pollio, Antonino ^a   Yoon, Hwan Su ^c   Bhattacharya, Debashish ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyanidiales; Galdieria; rbcL sequence data; Taxonomy; Thermoacidic environments; Unicellular red algae

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENETICS; RED ALGA; TAXONOMY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGAE; CYANIDIALES; CYANIDIOSCHYZON MEROLAE; EUKARYOTA; GALDIERIA; GALDIERIA DAEDALA; GALDIERIA MAXIMA; GALDIERIA PARTITA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 0242499938     PISSN: 01811568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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