Rediscovery of Paramecium nephridiatum Gelei, 1925 and its Characteristics |
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| Authors: | SERGEI I FOKIN THORSTEN STOECK HELMUT J SCHMIDT |
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| Institution: | Biological Institute of St. Petersburg State University, Old Peterhof, Oranienbaumskoye sch. 198904 St. Petersburg, Russia;FB Biology/ABT Ecology, University of Kaiserslautern, Erwin-Schrodinger-Strasse 14, D-67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany |
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| Abstract: | Paramecium nephridiatum Gelei. 1925, was rediscovered. It is a euryhaline brackish-water species that morphologically resembles Paramecium woodruffi . but with multiple contractile vacuole pores. The general morphology, morphometry. and random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fingerprint patterns are presented for a number of the stocks collected around the world. |
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| Keywords: | Brackish water morphology morphometry paramecia Paramecium nephridiatum RAPD fingerprint pattern |
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