A new genus of xenophyophores (foraminifera) from Japan trench: Morphological description, molecular phylogeny and elemental analysiszoj

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 455-464

  Lecroq, Béatrice ^a   Gooday, Andrew John ^b   Tsuchiya, Masashi ^c   Pawlowski, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deep sea; Mass spectrometry; Microscopy; Ribosomal DNA; Xenophyophorea

Indexed keywords

CORBICULA; FORAMINIFERA; PROTISTA; RHIZAMMINA ALGAEFORMIS; SYRINGAMMINA; SYRINGAMMINA CORBICULA; XENOPHYOPHORA;

EID: 68149126216     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00493.x     Document Type: Article

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