A new agarophyte species, gelidium eucorneum sp. nov. (gelidiales, rhodophyta), based on molecular and morphological data

Journal of Phycology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 904-910

  Kim, Kyeong Mi ^a   Hwang, Il Ki ^b   Park, Jeong Kwang ^a   Boo, Sung Min ^a  

^a Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^b National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Gelidium; Gelidium eucorneum sp. nov.; Mitochondrial cox1; Morphology; Plastid genes; psaA; rbcL; Rhodophyta; Systematics

Indexed keywords

ACANTHOPELTIS; ACANTHOPELTIS LONGIRAMULOSA; ALGAE; GELIDIALES; GELIDIUM; GELIDIUM VAGUM; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 79960739553     PISSN: 00223646     EISSN: 15298817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2011.01005.x     Document Type: Article

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