Morphological diversity between culture strains of a chlorarachniophyte, Lotharella globosa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Hirakawa, Yoshihisa ^a   Howe, Alexis ^a   James, Erick R ^a   Keeling, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ALGAL CELL CULTURE; AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHLORARACHNIOPHYTE; COCCOID CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL REEF; DNA BARCODING; FLAGELLATE; FLAGELLATE CELL; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LIFE CYCLE; LOTHARELLA GLOBOSA; LOTHARELLA GLOBOSA CCCM811; LOTHARELLA GLOBOSA LEX01; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NAKED AMOEBOID CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; WALLED AMOEBOID CELL; BIODIVERSITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CERCOZOA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLASTID; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; CHLORARACHNIOPHYCEAE; COCCOIDEA; LOTHARELLA GLOBOSA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES);

BIODIVERSITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CERCOZOA; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENETIC VARIATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASTIDS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80051702077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023193     Document Type: Article

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