Symbiotic Ciliates Receive Protection Against UV Damage from their Algae: A Test with Paramecium bursaria and Chlorella

Protist

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 233-243

  Summerer, Monika ^a   Sonntag, Bettina ^a   Hörtnagl, Paul ^a   Sommaruga, Ruben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

ciliates; green algae; mutual benefit; symbiosis; UV radiation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHLORELLA; PARAMECIUM; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; CHLORELLA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PARAMECIUM; SYMBIOSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

ALGAE; CHLORELLA (CHLORELLALES); CHLORELLA (PRASIOLALES); CHLORELLA (UNCLASSIFIED CHLOROPHYCEAE); CHLORELLA (UNCLASSIFIED TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE); CHLOROPHYTA; CILIOPHORA; PARAMECIUM; PARAMECIUM BURSARIA;

EID: 64449089025     PISSN: 14344610     EISSN: 16180941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2008.11.005     Document Type: Article

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