The morphology of the doublet of Oxytricha bifaria: Further studies

Cytobios

Volumn 1996, Issue 362-363, 1997, Pages 203-218

  Banchetti, R ^a   Bisogni, S ^a   Ricci, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Doublets; Morphology; Oxytricha bifaria

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542307800     PISSN: 00114529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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