Ontogenesis and molecular phylogeny of the marine ciliate diophryopsis hystrix: Implications for the Systematics of the diophrys-like species (ciliophora, spirotrichea, euplotida)

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 33-39

  Shao, Chen ^a   Zhang, Qianqian ^a   Al Rasheid, Khaled A ^b   Warren, Alan ^c   Song, Weibo ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diophryinae; Euplotida; Morphogenesis; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

CILIATE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MORPHOGENESIS; ONTOGENY; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CILIATE; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CILIOPHORA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENES, RRNA; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CILIOPHORA; DIOPHRYS; EUPLOTIDA; SPIROTRICHEA; URONYCHIA; URONYCHIIDAE;

EID: 73349085215     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: 15507408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2009.00442.x     Document Type: Article

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