Choricystis minor as a new symbiont of simultaneous two-species association with Paramecium bursaria and implications for its phylogeny

Symbiosis

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 127-151

  Nakahara, Miho ^a   Handa, Shinji ^b   Watanabe, Shin ^c   Deguchi, Hironori ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hiroshima Environment and Health Association   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

18s rRNA gene; Chlorophyta; Choricystis minor; Maximum likelihood; Molecular phylogeny; Nannochloris; Paramecium bursaria; Symbiotic algae

Indexed keywords

ALGA; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; CHLORELLA VULGARIS; CHLOROPHYTA; CHORICYSTIS MINOR; COCCOIDEA; NANNOCHLORIS; NANNOCHLORIS ATOMUS; PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM BURSARIA; TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE;

EID: 2542426888     PISSN: 03345114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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