"Polar vesicles" of microsporidia are mitochondrial remnants ("mitosomes")?

Folia Parasitologica

Volumn 52, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 193-195

  Vávra, Jiří ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSPORIDIA;

EID: 20444437297     PISSN: 00155683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14411/fp.2005.024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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