Folic acid is a potent chemoattractant of free-living amoebae in a new and amazing species of protist, vahlkampfia sp.

Zoological Science

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 179-186

  Maeda, Yasuo ^a   Mayanagi, Taira ^b   Amagai, Aiko ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amoeba; Chemotaxis; Dictyostelium; Folic acid; Protozoa; Vahlkampfia

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; RIBOFLAVIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMOTAXIS; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTOZOON;

ANIMALS; CHEMOTAXIS; EVOLUTION; FOLIC ACID; PROTOZOA; RIBOFLAVIN; VITAMIN B 12;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACRASIDA; AMOEBA (GENUS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GYMNAMOEBIA; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA; VAHLKAMPFIA;

EID: 65949124884     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: 02890003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.26.179     Document Type: Article

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