Morphology and phylogenies of two hypotrichous brackish-water ciliates from China, Neourostylopsis orientalis n. sp. and Protogastrostyla sterkii (Wallengren, 1900) n. comb., with establishment of a new genus Neourostylopsis n. gen. (Protista, Ciliophora, Hypotrichia)

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue PART3, 2013, Pages 1197-1209

  Chen, Xiangrui ^a   Shao, Chen ^b   Liu, Xihan ^c   Huang, Jie ^c   Al Rasheid, Khaled A S ^d  

^a NINGBO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^d KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHINA; CILIATE; COASTAL WATERS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENUS; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; NEOUROSTYLOPSIS ORIENTALIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOGASTROSTYLA STERKII; TAXONOMY;

CHINA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENES, RRNA; HYPOTRICHIDA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER;

EID: 84874850922     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.049403-0     Document Type: Article

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