Taxonomy of cyanobacteria: A contribution to consensus approach

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 740, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-11

  Palinska, Katarzyna A ^a,b   Surosz, Waldemar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blue green algae; Cyanobacteria; Ecotype; Phylogeny; Systematics

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIUM; ECOTYPE; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; MORPHOLOGY; NICHE; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 84910114509     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-014-1971-9     Document Type: Article

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