Hidden biodiversity of the extremophilic Cyanidiales red algae

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1827-1838

  Ciniglia, Claudia ^a   Yoon, Hwan Su ^b   Pollio, Antonino ^a   Pinto, Gabriele ^a   Bhattacharya, Debashish ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cyanidiales; Extremophile; Phylogeny; Plastid genes; Red algae

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; RBCL PROTEIN, PLASTID; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; ITALY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RED ALGA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGAE, RED; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; DNA PRIMERS; ITALY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ALGAE; CYANIDIALES; CYANIDIOSCHYZON; CYANIDIOSCHYZON MEROLAE; CYANIDIUM; CYANIDIUM CALDARIUM; EUKARYOTA; GALDIERIA; GALDIERIA MAXIMA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 3042786624     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2004.02180.x     Document Type: Article

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