Signal transduction during fertilization in the unicellular green alga, Chlamydomonas

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 596-602

  Pan, Junmin ^a   Snell, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE;

CHLAMYDOMONAS; FERTILIZATION; GAMETOGENESIS; GREEN ALGA; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLOROPHYTA;

EID: 0033647305     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(00)00146-6     Document Type: Review

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