Studies on the genus Mesodinium I: Ultrastructure and description of Mesodinium chamaeleon n. sp., a benthic marine species with green or red chloroplasts

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 20-39

  Moestrup, Øjvind ^a   Garcia Cuetos, Lydia ^a   Hansen, Per Juel ^a   Fenchel, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Ciliate; mesodiniid; taxonomy; TEM

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

BENTHOS; CHLOROPLAST; CILIATE; CYST; ENDOSYMBIONT; FLAGELLATE; HETEROTROPHY; INGESTION RATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NEW SPECIES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SYMBIOSIS; TAXONOMY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROPLAST; CILIATE; CLASSIFICATION; CRYPTOPHYTA; CYTOLOGY; DIGESTION; DNA SEQUENCE; EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CHLOROPLASTS; CILIOPHORA; CRYPTOPHYTA; DIGESTION; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VACUOLES;

CILIOPHORA; CRYPTOPHYTA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); MESODINIIDAE; MESODINIUM; MESODINIUM PULEX; MESODINIUM RUBRUM;

EID: 84855523891     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: 15507408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2011.00593.x     Document Type: Article

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