Isolation of Physarum polycephalum plasmodial mutants altered in sporulation by chemical mutagenesis of flagellates

European Journal of Protistology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 19-27

  Sujatha, Arumugam ^a   Balaji, Sreedhar ^a   Devi, Rajan ^a   Marwan, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Commitment; Ethylnitrosourea; Mutagenesis; Myxomycetales; Terminal differentiation; Time resolved somatic complementation

Indexed keywords

CHONDROMYCES; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PHYSARUM; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM;

EID: 13444309653     PISSN: 09324739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2004.08.001     Document Type: Article

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