High-speed video cinematographic demonstration of stalk and zooid contraction of Vorticella convallaria

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 487-491

  Moriyama, Yasushige ^a   Hiyama, Shigeo ^b   Asai, Hiroshi ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TAMA ART UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCEROL;

ARTICLE; CILIATE; CINERADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCE; MOTION; NONHUMAN; VELOCITY; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 0031961958     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(98)77806-3     Document Type: Article

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