Harmful and parasitic unicellular eukaryotes persist in a shallow lake under reconstruction (L. Karla, Greece)

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 718, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 73-83

  Nikouli, Eleni ^a   Kormas, Konstantinos Ar ^a   Berillis, Panagiotis ^a   Karayanni, Hera ^b   Moustaka Gouni, Maria ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

18S rDNA; Greece; Karla; Lake; Plankton; Shallow; Unicellular eukaryotes

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTE; FISH; FOOD WEB; GENE; LAKE; PLANKTON; SHALLOW WATER;

GREECE; KARLA LAKE; MAGNESIA; THESSALY;

ALVEOLATA; CERCOZOA; CHLOROPHYTA; CRYPTOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; LAGENIDIUM; OOCYSTIS; PFIESTERIA; PFIESTERIA SP.; PROTISTA; SCENEDESMUS; STRAMENOPILES;

EID: 84884534104     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-013-1604-8     Document Type: Article

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