Cell biology of the primitive eukaryote Giardia lamblia

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue , 1996, Pages 679-705

  Gillin, Frances D ^a   Reiner, David S ^a   McCaffery, J Michael ^b  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cyst wall; encystation; protein transport; regulated secretion; surface antigen

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; LIFE CYCLE; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; TROPHOZOITE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 0029816917     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.50.1.679     Document Type: Review

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