Isolation of a new heterolobosean amoeba from a rice field soil: Vrihiamoeba italica gen. nov., sp. nov.

European Journal of Protistology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 164-170

  Murase, Jun ^a   Kawasaki, Michio ^a,c   De Jonckheere, Johan F ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DE DUVE INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

^c HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

18S; 5.8S; ITS; New genus; RDNA; Rice field soil

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL RNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S; RNA 5.8S;

AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; FLAGELLUM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RICE; RNA GENE; SCHIZOPYRENIDA; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AMOEBA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FLAGELLA; GENES, RRNA; ITALY; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; SCHIZOPYRENIDA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

AMOEBA (GENUS); HETEROLOBOSEA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); STACHYAMOEBA; STACHYAMOEBA SP. ATCC 50324;

EID: 77954311986     PISSN: 09324739     EISSN: 16180429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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