Evaluating the Ribosomal Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) as a Candidate Dinoflagellate Barcode Marker

• Rowena F. Stern ,

  * E-mail: rost@sahfos.ac.uk

  Affiliation The Laboratory, Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, Plymouth, United Kingdom

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• Robert A. Andersen,

  Affiliation Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton, West Boothbay Harbor, Maine, United States of America

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• Ian Jameson,

  Affiliation Australian National Algae Culture Collection, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Marine and Atmospheric Research, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

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• Frithjof C. Küpper,

  Affiliation Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa, Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, United Kingdom

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• Mary-Alice Coffroth,

  Affiliation Department of Geology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

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• Daniel Vaulot,

  Affiliation Roscoff Culture Collection, Station Biologique Roscoff, Roscoff, France

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• Florence Le Gall,

  Affiliation Roscoff Culture Collection, Station Biologique Roscoff, Roscoff, France

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• Benoît Véron,

  Affiliation Algobank-Caen, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, Caen, France

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• Jerry J. Brand,

  Affiliation Section of MCD-Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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• Hayley Skelton,

  Affiliation Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Fumai Kasai,

  Affiliation Microbial Culture Collection, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan

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• Emily L. Lilly,

  Affiliation Biology Department, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia, United States of America

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• Patrick J. Keeling

  Affiliation Botany Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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