Diversity and distribution of unicellular opisthokonts along the European coast analysed using high-throughput sequencing

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3195-3207

  del Campo, Javier ^a,i   Mallo, Diego ^b   Massana, Ramon ^c   de Vargas, Colomban ^d   Richards, Thomas A ^e,f   Ruiz Trillo, Iñaki ^a,g,h  

^a INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY CSIC UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^d STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE ROSCOFF   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^f CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^h INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; BIODIVERSITY; CHOANOFLAGELLATE; CLASSIFICATION; EUROPE; FUNGUS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; ICHTHYOSPOREA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEDIMENT;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; CHOANOFLAGELLATA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EUROPE; FUNGI; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MESOMYCETOZOEA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S;

EID: 84941025279     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12759     Document Type: Article

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