The sex-inducing pheromone and wounding trigger the same set of genes in the multicellular green alga Volvox

Plant Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 781-789

  Amon, Peter ^a   Haas, Elke ^a   Sumper, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

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VOLVOX CARTERI;

EID: 0032076439     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.10.5.781     Document Type: Article

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