Semimorula liquescens is a modified echinostelid myxomycete (Mycetozoa)

Mycologia

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 773-776

  Fiore Donno, Anna Maria ^a   Haskins, Edward F ^b   Pawlowski, Jan ^c   Cavalier Smith, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

EF1A gene; Myxogastria; phylogeny; Slime molds; SSU rRNA gene

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PROTOZOAL DNA;

BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; GERMINATION; ISOLATED POPULATION; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RELATEDNESS; SLIME MOULD; SPORULATION; TAXONOMY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYXOGASTRIA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYXOMYCETES; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WASHINGTON;

UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

ECHINOSTELIIDAE; ECHINOSTELIUM; LYTHRUM SALICARIA; MYCETOZOA; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 72449204623     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/08-075     Document Type: Article

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