Volvoxrhodopsin, a light-regulated sensory photoreceptor of the spheroidal green alga Volvox carteri

Plant Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1473-1484

  Ebnet, Edeltraud ^a   Fischer, Markus ^a   Deininger, Werner ^a   Hegemann, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VOLVOXRHODOPSIN;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; VOLVOX CARTERI;

EID: 0033178148     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.11.8.1473     Document Type: Article

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