Synchronization of cell death in a dinoflagellate population is mediated by an excreted thiol protease

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 360-369

  Vardi, Assaf ^a,d   Eisenstadt, Doron ^a   Murik, Omer ^a   Berman Frank, Ilana ^b   Zohary, Tamar ^c   Levine, Alex ^a   Kaplan, Aaron ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c The Yigal Allon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory   (Israel)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; DNA FRAGMENT; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LEUPEPTIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

AGE; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; DINOFLAGELLATE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; EVOLUTION; METABOLISM; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DINOFLAGELLIDA; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EVOLUTION; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LEUPEPTINS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALGAE; DINOPHYCEAE; PERIDINIUM GATUNENSE;

EID: 33846040290     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01146.x     Document Type: Article

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