Diverse modes of reproduction in the marine free-living ciliate Glauconema trihymene

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Long, Hongan ^a   Zufall, Rebecca A ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASYMMETRIC CELL DIVISION; CELL CULTURE; CELL CYCLE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MATURATION; COASTAL WATERS; CYTOKINESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GLAUCONEMA TRIHYMENE; HYMENOSTOMATIDA; MARINE SPECIES; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAMECIUM; PHYLOGENY; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; TETRAHYMENA; TOMITE; CELL DIVISION; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OLIGOHYMENOPHOREA; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA GENE;

PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL RNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S;

CELL DIVISION; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOHYMENOPHOREA; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77950672120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-10-108     Document Type: Article

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