Diversity and ecology of small coccoid green algae from Lake Itasca, Minnesota, USA, including Meyerella planktonica, gen. et sp. nov.

Phycologia

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 35-48

  Fawley, Marvin W ^a   Fawley, Karen P ^a   Owen, Heather A ^b  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CHLORELLA VULGARIS; CHLOROPHYCEAE; CHLOROPHYTA; CHORICYSTIS; COCCOIDEA; KORSHPALMELLA; MEYERELLA PLANKTONICA; PSEUDODICTYOSPHAERIUM; PSEUDODICTYOSPHAERIUM JURISII; TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE;

EID: 14044258506     PISSN: 00318884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2216/0031-8884(2005)44[35:DAEOSC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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