Is the origin of astasia longa an example of the inheritance of acquired characteristics?

Acta Protozoologica

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 87-94

  Bodył, Andrzej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Astasia longa; Euglena bleaching; Euglena gracilis; gene deletions; genome evolution; plastid DNA

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029777297     PISSN: 00651583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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