The zooflagellates Stephanopogon and Percolomonas are a clade (class percolatea: Phylum percolozoa)

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 501-509

  Cavalier Smith, Thomas ^a   Nikolaev, Sergey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

18S rRNA; Actin; Discicristata; Freshwater marine transitions; Heterolobosea; Percolomonadidae; Pharyngomonadea; Pharyngomonas; Protozoan phylogeny; Tetramitia

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S; SEA WATER;

DIMORPHISM; DNA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN; RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOON;

ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEAWATER;

CILIOPHORA; DISCICRISTATA; EUKARYOTA; HETEROLOBOSEA; MACROPHARYNGOMONAS; PERCOLOMONAS; PERCOLOZOA; PROTOZOA; STEPHANOPOGON; STEPHANOPOGON APOGON; STEPHANOPOGONIDAE; TETRAMASTIX; ZOOMASTIGOPHOREA;

EID: 57749190323     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: 15507408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2008.00356.x     Document Type: Article

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