The contractile vacuole fluid discharge rate is determined by the vacuole size immediately before the start of discharge in Paramecium multimicronucleatum

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 200, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1737-1744

  Naitoh, Yutaka ^a   Tominaga, Takashi ^a   Allen, Richard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Contractile vacuole; Fluid discharge rate; Paramecium multimicronucleatum; Vacuole membrane tension; Vacuole membrane tubulation; Vacuole pore size

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030754592     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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