Widespread desert affiliation of trebouxiophycean algae (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta) including discovery of three new desert genera

Phycological Research

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 294-305

  Fučíková, Karolina ^a   Lewis, Paul O ^a   Lewis, Louise A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

18S rRNA; Coccoid; Cryptic diversity; Desert; Distribution; Extremophile; rbcL; Trebouxio phyceae

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; COCCOIDEA; TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE;

EID: 85027927442     PISSN: 13220829     EISSN: 14401835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pre.12062     Document Type: Article

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