Large amounts of apicoplast nucleoid DNA and its segregation in Toxoplasma gondii

Protoplasma

Volumn 218, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 180-191

  Matsuzaki, M ^a   Kikuchi, T ^a   Kita, K ^a   Kojima, S ^a   Kuroiwa, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apicoplast; Genomic copy number; Microfluorimetry; Plastid nucleoid; Plastid dividing ring; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

4',6 DIAMIDINO 2 PHENYLINDOLE; APICOPLAST; CELL DIVISION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; DNA DETERMINATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; NUCLEOID; PLASTID; STAINING;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE DOSAGE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PLASTIDS; TOXOPLASMA; VERO CELLS;

EID: 0035194239     PISSN: 0033183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01306607     Document Type: Article

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