Fine structure and phylogeny of green algal photobionts in the microfilamentous genus Psoroglaena (Verrucariaceae, Lichen-Forming Ascomycetes)

Plant Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 390-399

  Nyati, S ^a   Beck, A ^b   Honegger, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BAVARIAN NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auxenochlorella protothecoides; Chlorella luteoviridis; Prochlorophytes; Psoroglaena epiphylla; Psoroglaena stigonemoides; rbcL; SSU rDNA

Indexed keywords

ALGAL DNA; RBCL PROTEIN, PLASTID; RIBOSOME RNA; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 26S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CYANOBACTERIUM; FUNGUS; GREEN ALGA; LICHEN; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIONT;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GREEN ALGA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LICHENS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGAE, GREEN; ASCOMYCOTA; DNA, ALGAL; LICHENS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

'CHLORELLA' LUTEOVIRIDIS; 'CHLORELLA' SACCHAROPHILA; ALGAE; ASCOMYCOTA; AUXENOCHLORELLA PROTOTHECOIDES; CHLORELLA (CHLORELLALES); CHLORELLA (PRASIOLALES); CHLORELLA (UNCLASSIFIED CHLOROPHYCEAE); CHLORELLA (UNCLASSIFIED TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE); CHLOROPHYTA; COELENTERATA; CYANOBACTERIA; HYDRA VIRIDIS; LUCKING; PROCHLORALES; PSEUDOCHLORELLA; TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE; VERRUCARIACEAE;

EID: 34249696469     PISSN: 14358603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-924654     Document Type: Article

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