Two new marine ciliates, Euplotes sinicus sp. nov. and Euplotes parabalteatus sp. nov., and a new small subunit rRNA gene sequence of Euplotes rariseta (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea, Euplotida)

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1241-1251

  Jiang, Jiamei ^a   Zhang, Qianqian ^a   Hu, Xiaozhong ^a   Shao, Chen ^a   Al Rasheid, Khaled A S ^b   Song, Weibo ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHINA; CILIATE; DNA EXTRACTION; EUPLOTES PARABALTEATUS; EUPLOTES RARISETA; EUPLOTES SINICUS; GENE SEQUENCE; MARINE BACTERIUM; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPIROTRICHEA;

ANIMALS; CHINA; CILIOPHORA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; GENOTYPE; MICROSCOPY, INTERFERENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, SMALL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CILIOPHORA; EUPLOTES; EUPLOTES NOBILII; EUPLOTES RARISETA; EUPLOTIDA; EURYSTOMUS; SPIROTRICHEA;

EID: 77952714799     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.012120-0     Document Type: Article

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