Minipodia, the adhesive structures active in locomotion and endocytosis of amoebae

Acta Protozoologica

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 235-247

  Grȩbecki, Andrzej ^a   Grȩbecka, Lucyna ^a   Wasik, Anna ^a  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Adhesive organelles; Amoeba proteus; Amoeboid movement; Minipodia; Rosette contacts

Indexed keywords

AMOEBA PROTEUS;

EID: 0035665996     PISSN: 00651583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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