Morphology and phylogenetic position of Spongiochrysis hawaiiensis gen. et sp. nov., the first known terrestrial member of the order Cladophorales (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta)

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 913-922

  Rindi, Fabio ^a   López Bautista, Juan M ^b   Sherwood, Alison R ^c   Guiry, Michael D ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; FRESH WATER; RNA 18S;

ALGA; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CHLOROPLAST; CLADISTICS; CLADOPHORALES; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAUGHTER CELL; GREEN ALGA; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SIPHONOCLADALES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES HABITAT; SPONGIOCHRYSIS HAWAIIENSIS; SPOROGENESIS; STELLATE CELL; TREE; TROPICS; ULVOPHYCEAE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE, GREEN; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CASUARINA; CHLOROPHYTA; CLADOPHORALES; ULVOPHYCEAE;

EID: 33646178103     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.63977-0     Document Type: Article

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