Food plaquette digestion in the ciliated protozoan Hyalophysa chattoni

Invertebrate Biology

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 97-103

  Landers, Stephen C ^a   Treadaway, Rex A ^a   Johnson, Jason W ^a   Luckie, Rebecca N ^a  

^a TROY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acridine orange; Apostome; Endocytosis; Food vacuole; Neutral red

Indexed keywords

HYALOPHYSA CHATTONI; MYXOZOA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0035534949     PISSN: 10778306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7410.2001.tb00114.x     Document Type: Article

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