Calochaete gen. nov. (Cyanobacteria, Nostocales), a new cyanobacterial type from the "páramo" zone in Costa Rica

Phytotaxa

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 36-44

  Hauer, Tomáš ^a,b   Bohunická, Markéta ^a,b   Mühlsteinová, Radka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; 16S 23S ITS; Central America; Cyanoprokaryota; Microchaetaceae; Morphology; New genus; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCHAETACEAE; NOSTOCALES; RIVULARIACEAE; TOLYPOTHRIX;

EID: 84878972605     PISSN: 11793155     EISSN: 11793163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.109.1.4     Document Type: Article

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