Ultrastructure and phylogenetic position of Chrysoculter rhomboideus gen. et sp. nov. (Prymnesiophyceae), a new flagellate haptophyte from Japanese coastal waters

Phycologia

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 369-383

  Nakayama, Takeshi ^a   Yoshida, Masaki ^a   Noël, Mary Hélène ^b   Kawachi, Masanobu ^b   Inouye, Isao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CHRYSOCHROMULINA; CHRYSOCULTER RHOMBOIDEUS; HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 23244450253     PISSN: 00318884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2216/0031-8884(2005)44[369:UAPPOC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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