Biogeography and phylogenetics of the planktonic foraminifera

The planktonic foraminifera are a highly abundant and diverse group of marine pelagic protists that are ubiquitously distributed throughout the worlds’ oceans. These unicellular eukaryotes are encased in a calcareous (CaCO3) shell or ‘test’, the morphology of which is used to identify individual ‘m...

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Main Author: Seears, Heidi
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
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English
Published: 2011
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11879/