Co-localization of chloroplast DNA and ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase in the so-called pyrenoid of the siphonous green alga Caulerpa lentillifera (Caulerpales, Chlorophyta)

Phycologia

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 156-160

  Miyamura, Shinichi ^a   Hori, Terumitsu ^a   Ohya, Toshihide ^b   Tohma, Takeshi ^c   Ikawa, Tomoyoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Akita Pref Biol Rsrc EC   (Japan)

^c Okinawa Pref Fish Exp Station   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; AVRAINVILLEA; CAULERPA BRACHYPUS; CAULERPA LENTILLIFERA; CAULERPA OKAMURAE; CAULERPALES; CHAETOMORPHA; CHLOROPHYTA; VALONIA;

EID: 2642667818     PISSN: 00318884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-35-2-156.1     Document Type: Article

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