Structure and behavior of contractile vacuoles in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Protoplasma

Volumn 198, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 73-84

  Luykx, Peter ^a   Hoppenrath, Mona ^b   Robinson, David G ^b  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas reinharditii; Contractilevacuole; Electron microscopy; Osmoregulation; Videomicroscopy

Indexed keywords

CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII;

EID: 0030816126     PISSN: 0033183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01282133     Document Type: Article

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