A microspectrophotometric study of the shielding properties of eyespot and cell body in Chlamydomonas

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1573-1578

  Schaller, Klaus ^a   Uhl, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EYE; LIGHT; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; PHOTORECEPTOR;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII;

EID: 0030749776     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(97)78189-X     Document Type: Article

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