Isolation of cycloheximide-resistant mutants of Cyanidioschyzon merolae

Cytologia

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 97-100

  Yagisawa, Fumi ^a   Nishida, Keiji ^a   Okano, Yukio ^b   Minoda, Ayumi ^a   Tanaka, Kan ^a   Kuroiwa, Tsuneyoshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyanidioschyzon merolae; Cycloheximide resistance; Ribosomal protein L29

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CYANIDIOSCHYZON MEROLAE; EUKARYOTA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 1842817542     PISSN: 00114545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1508/cytologia.69.97     Document Type: Article

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