Jenufa gen. nov.: A new genus of coccoid green algae (chlorophyceae, incertae sedis) previously recorded by environmental sequencing

Journal of Phycology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 928-938

  Němcová, Yvonne ^a   Eliáš, Marek ^a,c   Škaloud, Pavel ^a,b   Hodač, Ladislav ^a,b   Neustupa, Jiří ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

18S rRNA; Chlorophyceae; Chlorophyta; Jenufa; Phylogeny; Taxonomy; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONADALES; CHLOROPHYCEAE; CHLOROPHYCEAE INCERTAE SEDIS; CHLOROPHYTA; COCCOIDEA; EUKARYOTA; GOLENKINIA; SPHAEROPLEALES;

EID: 79960703427     PISSN: 00223646     EISSN: 15298817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2011.01009.x     Document Type: Article

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