How does the contractile vacuole of Paramecium multimicronucleatum expel fluid? Modelling the expulsion mechanism

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 200, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 713-721

  Naitoh, Yutaka ^a   Tominaga, Takashi ^a   Ishida, Masaki ^a   Fok, Agnes K ^a   Aihara, Marilynn S ^a   Allen, Richard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

contractile vacuole; fluid discharge models; fluid discharge rate; Paramecium multimicronucleatum

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030935733     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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