Revision of the genus Cryptomonas (Cryptophyceae) II: Incongruences between the classical morphospecies concept and molecular phylogeny in smaller pyrenoid-less cells

Phycologia

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 402-428

  Hoef Emden, Kerstin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Compensating basepair clades; Cryptic species; Cryptomonad; Cryptomonas; Cryptophyceae; Internal transcribed spacer; Morphology; Nucleomorph; Phylogeny; Reverse taxonomy; Revision; Ribosomal DNA; Systematics

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOMONAS; CRYPTOPHYTA;

EID: 34547760950     PISSN: 00318884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2216/06-83.1     Document Type: Article

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