Intraclass evolution and classification of the Colpodea (Ciliophora)

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 397-415

  Foissner, Wilhelm ^a   Stoeck, Thorsten ^b   Agatha, Sabine ^a   Dunthorn, Micah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bardeliella; cladistics; classification; evolutionary systematics; molecular taxonomy; ontogenesis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CILIATE; CLADISTICS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW TAXON; ONTOGENY; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; CILIATE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; SOIL; TREE;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CILIOPHORA; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; SOIL; TREES;

BURSARIOMORPHIDA; CILIOPHORA; COLPODA; COLPODEA; COLPODIDA; CYRTOLOPHOSIDIDA;

EID: 80053201473     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: 15507408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2011.00566.x     Document Type: Article

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