Ecological genetics of Tetrahymena thermophila: Mating types, i-antigens, multiple alleles and epistasis

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 95-100

  Doerder, F Paul ^a   Arslanyolu, Muhittin ^a   Saad, Yasser ^a   Kaczmarek, Michelle ^a   Mendoza, Manuel ^a   Mita, Barry ^a  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecology; Population genetics; Restriction fragment length polymorphism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002345498     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1996.tb04487.x     Document Type: Article

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