Multiple Cosmopolitan Ecotypes within a Microbial Eukaryote Morphospecies

Protist

Volumn 157, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 377-390

  Finlay, Bland J ^a   Esteban, Genoveva F ^a   Brown, Susan ^a   Fenchel, Tom ^b   Hoef Emden, Kerstin ^c  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

ciliate; cosmopolitan; ecotype; morphospecies

Indexed keywords

CILIOPHORA; CYCLIDIUM GLAUCOMA; EUKARYOTA; GLAUCOMA (CILIATE); MYXOZOA; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 33749436421     PISSN: 14344610     EISSN: 16180941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2006.05.012     Document Type: Article

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