Budding and asymmetric reproduction of a trichomonad with as many as 1000 nuclei in karyomastigonts: Metacoronympha from Incisitermes

Acta Protozoologica

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 275-280

  Dolan, Michael F ^a   Wier, Andrew M ^a   Margulis, Lynn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Calonymphidae; Parabasal body; Parabasalia; Termite symbiont; Trinidad

Indexed keywords

CELL DIVISION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; UNITED STATES;

CALONYMPHIDAE; CORONYMPHA; INCISITERMES; INCISITERMES SNYDERI; ISOPTERA; KALOTERMITIDAE; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); METACORONYMPHA; METACORONYMPHA SENTA; PARABASALIDEA; TRICHOMONADIDA; TRICHONYMPHA;

EID: 0033679421     PISSN: 00651583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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