Testate amoebae examined by confocal and two-photon microscopy: Implications for taxonomy and ecophysiology

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 735-746

  Burdíkov, Zuzana ^a,b   Čapek, Martin ^a,c   Ostašov, Pavel ^a   MacHa, Jiří ^d   Pelc, Radek ^a   Mitchell, Edward A D ^e   Kubníová, Lucie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

confocal microscopy; ecophysiology; environmental scanning electron microscopy; taxonomy; testate amoebae

Indexed keywords

AMOEBOZOA; CLASSIFICATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMOEBOZOA; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY;

PROTOZOA;

EID: 79251607435     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: 14358115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927610094031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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