Survival or extinction of Paramecium multimicronucleatum cultured with P. tetraurelia is associated with the ability or inability to form food vacuoles

European Journal of Protistology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 274-283

  Maruyama, Chiyuri ^a   Takagi, Yoshiomi ^a  

^a NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extinction; Food vacuole formation; Paramecium; Survival

Indexed keywords

PARAMECIUM MULTIMICRONUCLEATUM; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA;

EID: 0030822675     PISSN: 09324739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0932-4739(97)80005-3     Document Type: Article

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