The difference between organelles and endosymbionts

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 2006, Pages

  Theissen, Ursula ^a   Martin, William ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENETICS; LETTER; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTID; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOON; SYMBIOSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CYANOBACTERIA; PLASTIDS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 33845437652     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.11.020     Document Type: Letter

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