Two new ciliates from Hong Kong coastal water: Orthodonella sinica n. sp. and Apokeronopsis wrighti n. sp. (Protozoa: Ciliophora)

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 321-330

  Long, Hongan ^a   Liu, Hongbin ^a   Liu, Weiwei ^b   Miao, Miao ^c   Hu, Xiaozhong ^c   Lin, Xiaofeng ^b   Song, Weibo ^b,c  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Marine ciliates; Morphology; SSrDNA

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

CILIATE; COASTAL WATER; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CILIATE; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HONG KONG; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CILIOPHORA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HONG KONG; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CILIOPHORA; ORTHODONELLA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 46749119070     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: 15507408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2008.00334.x     Document Type: Article

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