Culture and Pyrenoid Structure of a Symbiotic Chlorella Species Isolated from Paramecium bursaria

Symbiosis

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 203-214

  Nakahara, Miho ^a   Handa, Shinji ^b   Nakano, Taketo ^c   Deguchi, Hironori ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hiroshima Environment and Health Association   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chlorella; Morphology; Paramecium bursaria; Physiology; Pyrenoid; Symbiotic algae

Indexed keywords

CILIATE; GREEN ALGA; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; MORPHOLOGY;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM BURSARIA;

EID: 0347531852     PISSN: 03345114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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