Vorticella Linnaeus, 1767 (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophora, Peritrichia) is a Grade not a Clade: Redefinition of Vorticella and the Families Vorticellidae and Astylozoidae using Molecular Characters Derived from the Gene Coding for Small Subunit Ribosomal RNA

Protist

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 129-142

  Sun, Ping ^a   Clamp, John ^a   Xu, Dapeng ^a   Kusuoka, Yasushi ^b   Miao, Wei ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAKE BIWA MUSEUM   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Astylozoidae.; Broaden sampling; Phylogeny; Vorticella; Vorticellidae

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OLIGOHYMENOPHOREA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SMALL RIBOSOMAL SUBUNIT;

DNA, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGOHYMENOPHOREA; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, SMALL; WATER;

ASTYLOZOIDAE; ASTYLOZOON; CILIOPHORA; OLIGOHYMENOPHOREA; OPISTHONECTA; PERITRICHIA (CILIATES); VORTICELLA; VORTICELLA MICROSTOMA; VORTICELLIDAE;

EID: 82555191101     PISSN: 14344610     EISSN: 16180941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2011.06.005     Document Type: Article

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