Cells at the center of Dictyostelium aggregates become spores

Developmental Biology

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 564-571

  Huang, Hao Jen ^a   Takagawa, David ^b   Weeks, Gerald ^b   Pears, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS;

ACRASIDA; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 0031573928     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8769     Document Type: Article

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