Just the right size: Cell counting in Dictyostelium

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 191-193

  Brown, Jason M ^a   Firtel, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CELL SIZE; DEVELOPMENT; DICTYOSTELIUM; DIET RESTRICTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NULL CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0034191918     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(00)01977-6     Document Type: Short Survey

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