Living together: The marine amoeba Thecamoeba hilla Schaeffer, 1926 and its endosymbiont Labyrinthula sp.

European Journal of Protistology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 308-316

  Dyková, Iva ^a,b   Fiala, Ivan ^a,b   Dvořáková, Helena ^a   Pecková, Hana ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Amoebozoa; Labyrinthula sp.; Labyrinthulomycota; Symbiotic association; Thecamoeba hilla

Indexed keywords

AMOEBA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMOEBA; ANIMALS; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

AMOEBOZOA; LABYRINTHULA; LABYRINTHULIDA; PROTISTA; SCOPHTHALMUS MAXIMUS; THECAMOEBA;

EID: 55249121163     PISSN: 09324739     EISSN: 16180429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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