Organelle origins: Energy-producing symbionts in early eukaryotes?

Current Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1997, Pages

  Sogin, Mitchell L ^a  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

EID: 0031148712     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(06)00147-3     Document Type: Article

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