Methods to estimate the diversity in the marine photosynthetic protist community with illustrations from case studies: A review

Diversity

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 973-1014

  Medlin, Linda K ^a,b   Kooistra, Wiebe H C F ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Barcoding; Fingerprinting; Molecular methods; Phytoplankton; Probes; Sequencing; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ESTIMATION METHOD; EUKARYOTE; PHYTOPLANKTON; PROTIST; TAXONOMY;

EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA;

EID: 80051689273     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14242818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/d2070973     Document Type: Review

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