Studies on Rickettsia-like Organism Disease of the Tropical Marine Pearl Oyster I: The Fine Structure and Morphogenesis of Pinctada maxima Pathogen Rickettsia-like Organism

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 162-172

  Wu, Xinzhong ^a   Pan, Jinpei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Inclusions; Intracellular prokaryote; Morphogenesis; Pearl oyster; Pinctada maxima; Rickettsia like organism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006487623     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jipa.1998.4809     Document Type: Article

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