Not all free-living microorganisms have cosmopolitan distributions - The case of Nebela (Apodera) vas Certes (Protozoa: Amoebozoa: Arcellinida)

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1822-1831

  Smith, Humphrey G ^a   Wilkinson, David M ^b  

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agents of dispersal; Global distribution; Lacunae in distribution; Microbial biogeography; Nebela vas; Testate amoebae

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MICROORGANISM; MORPHOLOGY; NEW RECORD; PROTOZOAN; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

AMOEBOZOA; ARCELLINIDA; NEBELA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 34748816745     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01733.x     Document Type: Article

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