Ultrastructure of the intracellular parasite Parvilucifera sinerae (Alveolata, Myzozoa) infecting the marine toxic planktonic dinoflagellate Alexandrium minutum (Dinophyceae)

Harmful Algae

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 64-70

  Garcés, Esther ^a   Hoppenrath, Mona ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apicomplexa; Dinoflagellates; Parvilucifera; Perkinsids; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ALEXANDRIUM MINUTUM; ALVEOLATA; APICOMPLEXA; CONOIDEA; DINOPHYCEAE; MIOZOA; PARVILUCIFERA; PARVILUCIFERA INFECTANS; PERKINSIDA; TUBULOCRISTATA;

EID: 77957342316     PISSN: 15689883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hal.2010.07.001     Document Type: Article

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