Morphological and Genetic Variation Within the Diatom Skeletonema Costatum (bacillariophyta): Evidence for a New Species, Skeletonema PSEUDOCOSTATUM1
Abstract
The nuclear gene encoding the small subunit (16S-like) ribosomal RNA molecule was sequenced from four isolates of the marine coastal planktonic diatom Skeletonema costatum (Grev.) Cleve. Each isolate originated from a geographically separate water mass. Sufficient morphological and genetic differences were found among the four isolates to support the description of a new species, Skeletonema pseudocostatum, which corresponds to the CCAP 1077/7 and CS-76 isolates.
- Publication:
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Journal of Phycology
- Pub Date:
- August 1991
- DOI:
- 10.1111/j.0022-3646.1991.00514.x
- Bibcode:
- 1991JPcgy..27..514M