Taxonomic reexamination of 17 species of Nitella subgenus Tieffallenia (Charales, Charophyceae) based on internal morphology of the oospore wall and multiple DNA marker sequences

Journal of Phycology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 195-211

  Sakayama, Hidetoshi ^a,e   Miyaji, Kazuyuki ^b   Nagumo, Tamotsu ^c   Kato, Masahiro ^a   Hara, Yoshiaki ^d   Nozaki, Hisayoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIPPON DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Charales; Charophyceae; Chloroplast DNA; Morphology; Nitella; Nuclear DNA; Oospores; Scanning electron microscopy; Taxonomy; Tieffallenia

Indexed keywords

ALGA; TAXONOMY;

CHARALES; JAPONICA; MEGASPORA; NITELLA; NITELLA MEGASPORA;

EID: 13944259451     PISSN: 00223646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2005.04133.x     Document Type: Article

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