Tetrahymena as a laboratory organism: Useful strains, cell culture, and cell line maintenance

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn , Issue 62, 2000, Pages 189-211

  Orias, Eduardo ^a   Hamilton, Eileen P ^a   Orias, Judith D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TETRAHYMENA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 0033988376     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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