Cellular graviperception in the basidiomycete Flammulina velutipes - Can the nuclei serve as fungal statoliths?

European Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 216-220

  Monzer, Jan ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Basidiomycete; Cellular gravity perception; Gravitropism; Statolith

Indexed keywords

ACTIN;

ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; CELL DENSITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL VACUOLE; CYTOSKELETON; FUNGUS; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GRAVITY; NONHUMAN; OTOLITH; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; FLAMMULINA VELUTIPES; FUNGI;

EID: 0029909567     PISSN: 01719335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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