Nuclear DNA content variation in the freshwater red algal orders Batrachospermales and Thoreales (Florideophyceae, Nemaliophycidae)

Phycologia

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 54-62

  Kapraun, Donald F ^a   Braly, Katherine S ^a   Freshwater, D Wilson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Batrachospermales; Nuclear genome size; Polyploidy; rbcL; Rhodophyta; Thoreales

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BATRACHOSPERMALES; BATRACHOSPERMUM; FLORIDEOPHYCEAE; LEMANEA; LEMANEACEAE; RHODOPHYTA; SIRODOTIA;

EID: 33846215586     PISSN: 00318884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2216/06-18.1     Document Type: Article

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