Seasonal and spatial variability of species occurrence of the Paramecium aurelia complex in a single natural pond (Protista, Ciliophora)

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 663, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 233-244

  Przyboś, Ewa ^a   Tarcz, Sebastian ^a   Greczek Stachura, Magdalena ^b   Surmacz, Marta ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION OF ANIMALS   (Poland)

^b PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cytb mtDNA; Geographic distribution; LSU rDNA; Paramecium aurelia; Temporal occurrence

Indexed keywords

CILIATE; COLONIZATION; FRAGMENTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT TYPE; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NICHE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POND; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AVES; CILIOPHORA; PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM AURELIA; PARAMECIUM BIAURELIA; PARAMECIUM DODECAURELIA; PARAMECIUM PENTAURELIA; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PARAMECIUM TRIAURELIA; PROTISTA;

EID: 79959787168     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0575-2     Document Type: Article

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