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SUBMITTER: Park JS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5584963 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Park Joon Sang JS Jung Seung Won SW Ki Jang-Seu JS Guo Ruoyu R Kim Hyun Jung HJ Lee Kyun-Woo KW Lee Jin Hwan JH
PloS one 20170905 9
The marine diatoms Thalassiosira proschkinae and T. spinulata are relatively small in size; their taxonomic identities have been debated owing to the diverse morphological variations. In the present study, we isolated both morphotypes from Korean coastal waters and examined their fine structures and conducted molecular sequence comparisons. The morphological and molecular analyses showed that T. proschkinae and T. spinulata were certainly distinct, and phenotypic plasticity of valve structure wa ...[more]