The supramolecular organization of photosynthetic membranes in the red alga Thorea ramosissima: Spatial relationship between putative photosystem II core particles (EF-particles) and phycobilisomes

Phycologia

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 543-551

  Tsekos, Ioannes ^a   Reiss, Hans Dieter ^a   Delivopoulos, Stylianos G ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; EUKARYOTA; RHODOPHYTA; THOREA; THOREA RAMOSISSIMA;

EID: 5344261817     PISSN: 00318884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-43-5-543.1     Document Type: Article

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