Dictyostelium discoideum (countin3) Forms Small Fruiting Bodies

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 223-226

  Katayama, Takahiro ^a   Takano, Akinori ^a   Okuwa, Takako ^a   Issaeva, Marina ^b   Masamune, Yukito ^b   Kodaira, Ken Ichi ^a   Yasukawa, Hiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

countin3; Dictyostelium discoideum; size

Indexed keywords

EID: 46249092733     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.18.223     Document Type: Article

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