The inadequacy of morphology for species and genus delineation in microbial eukaryotes: An example from the parabasalian termite symbiont Coronympha

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Harper, James T ^a,b   Gile, Gillian H ^a   James, Erick R ^a   Carpenter, Kevin J ^a   Keeling, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b DOUGLAS COLLEGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR MARKER;

ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CORONYMPHA; CORONYMPHA OCTONARIA; DNA BARCODING; EUKARYOTE; HOST RANGE; INCISITERMES BANKSI; INCISITERMES MILLERI; INCISITERMES SCHWARZI; INCISITERMES SNYDERI; ISOPTERA; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; METACORONYMPHA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIONT; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS; TRICHOMONADIDA;

ALGAE; CORONYMPHA; CORONYMPHA OCTONARIA; EUKARYOTA; INCISITERMES; ISOPTERA; METACORONYMPHA; PARABASALIDEA; PROTISTA;

ANIMALS; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS; TRICHOMONADIDA;

EID: 68949126781     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006577     Document Type: Article

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