| identity and systematic position of paradinium poucheti and other paradinium-like parasites of marine copepods based on morphology and nuclear-encoded ssu rdna. | paradinium and paradinium-like parasites were detected in various copepod hosts collected in the nw mediterranean sea, the north atlantic ocean, and the godthåbsfjord (greenland). the identity and systematic position of the parasitic, plasmodial protist paradinium was investigated on the basis of ssu rdna and morphology. ssu rdna sequences were obtained from 3 specimens of paradinium poucheti isolated from their cyclopoid copepod host, oithona similis. in addition, a comparable sequence was obta ... | 2008 | 18485817 |