An experimental test of the symbiosis specificity between the ciliate Paramecium bursaria and strains of the unicellular green alga Chlorella

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2117-2122

  Summerer, Monika ^a   Sonntag, Bettina ^a   Sommaruga, Ruben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHLORELLA; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PARAMECIUM; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; CHLORELLA; DNA, ALGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; PARAMECIUM; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLORELLA (CHLORELLALES); CHLORELLA (PRASIOLALES); CHLORELLA (UNCLASSIFIED CHLOROPHYCEAE); CHLORELLA (UNCLASSIFIED TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE); CHLOROPHYTA; CILIOPHORA; COELENTERATA; HYDRA; HYDRA VIRIDIS; PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM BURSARIA;

EID: 34447339178     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01322.x     Document Type: Article

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