Chakia (cyanobacteria), a new heterocytous genus from Belizean marshes identified on the basis of the 16S rRNA gene

Fottea

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 227-233

  Komárková, Jaroslava ^a,b   Zapomělová, Eliška ^a,c   Komárek, Jiří ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Alkaline marshes; Central America; Chakia; Ecology; Scytonemataceae; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882573770     PISSN: 18025439     EISSN: 18054927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5507/fot.2013.018     Document Type: Article

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