Morphogenesis in the marine spirotrichous ciliate Apokeronopsis crassa (Claparède & Lachmann, 1858) n. comb. (Ciliophora: Stichotrichia), with the establishment of a new genus, Apokeronopsis n. g., and redefinition of the genus Thigmokeronopsis

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 392-401

  Shao, Chen ^a   Hu, Xiaozhong ^a   Warren, Alan ^b   Al Rasheid, Khaled A S ^c   Al Quraishy, Saleh A ^c   Song, Weibo ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Cell regeneration; Pseudokeronopsidae; Spirotrichea; Systematics; Urostylida

Indexed keywords

CILIATE; MORPHOGENESIS; NEW GENUS; REGENERATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CILIATE; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MORPHOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CILIOPHORA; MORPHOGENESIS;

BICORONA; CILIOPHORA; PSEUDOKERONOPSIDAE; PSEUDOKERONOPSIS; SPIROTRICHEA; STICHOTRICHIA; THIGMOKERONOPSIS; UROLEPTOPSIS;

EID: 34547431016     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: 15507408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2007.00278.x     Document Type: Article

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