Redescription of Rhizodomus tagatzi (Ciliophora: Spirotrichea: Tintinnida), based on morphology and small subunit ribosomal RNA gene sequence

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 218-231

  Saccà, Alessandro ^a   Strüder Kypke, Michaela C ^b   Lynn, Denis H ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ciliate; phylogeny; plankton; SSU rRNA; tintinnid

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

CILIATE; CYTOLOGY; MEROMICTIC LAKE; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; TAXONOMY; WATER COLUMN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CILIATE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LAKE; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; SMALL RIBOSOMAL SUBUNIT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CILIOPHORA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; LAKES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, SMALL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

FARO LAKE; ITALY; MESSINA [SICILY]; SICILY;

CILIOPHORA; LORICA; SPIROTRICHEA; TINTINNIDA; TINTINNOPSIS; TINTINNOPSIS CORNIGER; TINTINNOPSIS RADIX;

EID: 84861096386     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: 15507408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2012.00615.x     Document Type: Article

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