Devescovinid features, a remarkable surface cytoskeleton, and epibiotic bacteria revisited in Mixotricha paradoxa, a parabasalid flagellate

Protoplasma

Volumn 224, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 49-59

  Brugerolle, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Cell junction; Cytoskeleton; Epibiotic bacterium; Mixotricha paradoxa; Spirochete; Termite

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSKELETON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FIBER; FLAGELLATE; FLAGELLUM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISOPTERA; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPIROCHETE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS; CYTOSKELETON; FLAGELLA; ISOPTERA; MICROFIBRILS; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; SPIROCHAETALES; TRICHOMONADIDA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; ISOPTERA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); MIXOTRICHA PARADOXA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTOZOA; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 6444230733     PISSN: 0033183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00709-004-0052-8     Document Type: Article

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