Protistan diversity in a permanently stratified meromictic lake (Lake Alatsee, SW Germany)

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2144-2157

  Oikonomou, Andreas ^a   Filker, Sabine ^a   Breiner, Hans Werner ^a   Stoeck, Thorsten ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICOSOECIDA; CHRYSOPHYCEAE; DINOPHYCEAE; EUGLENOZOA; EUKARYOTA; OTUS; PROTISTA; STRAMENOPILES;

OXYGEN; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; EUGLENOZOA; EUKARYOTE; FUNGUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GERMANY; INVERTEBRATE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LAKE; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; SEASON; STRAMENOPILE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EUGLENOZOA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; GENETIC VARIATION; GERMANY; INVERTEBRATES; LAKES; OXYGEN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEASONS; STRAMENOPILES;

EID: 84931570152     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12666     Document Type: Article

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