A reinvestigation of the marine ciliate Trachelocerca ditis (Wright, 1982) Foissner and Dragesco, 1996 (Ciliophora, Karyorelictea) from the Yellow Sea and an assessment of its phylogenetic position inferred from the small subunit rRNA gene sequence

Acta Protozoologica

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 213-221

  Mazei, Yuri ^a   Gao, Shan ^b   Warren, Alan ^c   Li, Liqiong ^b   Li, Jiqiu ^b   Song, Weibo ^b   Esaulov, Anton ^d  

^a PENZA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Infraciliature; Marine interstitial ciliate; Molecular phylogeny; Morphology; SSU rRNA

Indexed keywords

CILIOPHORA; KARYORELICTEA; TRACHELOCERCA; TRACHELOCERCIDAE; TRACHELORAPHIS SP.;

EID: 75249088716     PISSN: 00651583     EISSN: 16890027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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