Cell division of Giardia intestinalis: Assembly and disassembly of the adhesive disc, and the cytokinesis

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 288-298

  Tůmová, Pavla ^a   Kulda, Jaroslav ^b   Nohýnková, Eva ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BULOVKA   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cell division; Cytokinesis; Giardia; Unicellular eukaryote; Ventral disc

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIVISION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSKELETON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; KINETOSOME; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHOZOITE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS DIVISION; CYTOKINESIS; FLAGELLA; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULES; TROPHOZOITES;

GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; PROTISTA;

EID: 33947425595     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: 10970169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.20183     Document Type: Article

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