Relationships of species of the Paramecium aurelia complex (Protozoa, Ph. Ciliophora, Cl. Oligohymenophorea) based on sequences of the histone H4 gene fragment

Folia Biologica

Volumn 54, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 37-42

  Przyboś, Ewa ^a   Maciejewska, Agnieszka ^b   Skotarczak, Bogumiła ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION OF ANIMALS   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Histone H4 sequencing; Paramecium aurelia species complex; Species relationships

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H4;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

CILIOPHORA; OLIGOHYMENOPHOREA; PARAMECIUM AURELIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 33745324718     PISSN: 00155497     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3409/173491606777919157     Document Type: Article

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