Updating the genus Dictyosphaerium and description of Mucidosphaerium gen. nov. (Trebouxiophyceae) based on morphological and molecular data

Journal of Phycology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 638-652

  Bock, Christina ^a   Pröschold, Thomas ^b,c   Krienitz, Lothar ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^b SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dictyosphaerium; ITS; Mucidosphaerium; Parachlorella; Phylogeny; SSU; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CHLORELLACEAE; DICTYOSPHAERIUM; DICTYOSPHAERIUM EHRENBERGIANUM; DICTYOSPHAERIUM PULCHELLUM; PARACHLORELLA; TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE;

EID: 79958250041     PISSN: 00223646     EISSN: 15298817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2011.00989.x     Document Type: Article

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