Ultrastructure and supramolecular organization of photosynthetic membranes of some marine red algae

New Phytologist

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 543-551

  Tsekos, I ^a   Reiss, H D ^b   Orfanidis, S ^a   Orologas, N ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Freeze fracture; Phycobilisomes; Red algae; Thylakoid membranes; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001518484     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.1996.tb01923.x     Document Type: Article

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