Morphological redescriptions of four marine ciliates (Ciliophora: Cyrtophorida: Dysteriidae) from Qingdao, China

European Journal of Protistology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 197-207

  Pan, Hongbo ^a   Hu, Xiaozhong ^a,d   Gong, Jun ^b   Lin, Xiaofeng ^b   Al Rasheid, Khaled A S ^c   Al Farraj, Saleh A ^c   Warren, Alan ^d  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dysteria; Infraciliature; Marine ciliates; Mirodysteria; Neotypification; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER; SILVER PROTEIN; STRONG SILVER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHINA; CILIATE; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STAINING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CHINA; CILIOPHORA; MICROSCOPY, INTERFERENCE; SEAWATER; SILVER PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STAINING AND LABELING;

CILIOPHORA; CYRTOPHORIDA; DYSTERIA; DYSTERIA DEROUXI; DYSTERIIDAE;

EID: 79958264889     PISSN: 09324739     EISSN: 16180429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2011.03.002     Document Type: Article

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