Vesiculation of food vacuoles and segregation of ingesta: Peculiarities of the digestive cycle in the raptorial ciliate homalozoon vermiculare

Acta Protozoologica

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-8

  Baumberg, Doreen ^a   Hausmann, Klaus ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digestion process; Inhibition of phagocytosis by cytochalasin; Raptorial ciliate Homalozoon; Segregation of food; Vesiculation of food vacuoles

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; COLPIDIUM; HOMALOZOON; HOMALOZOON VERMICULARE; PARAMECIUM;

EID: 70350424236     PISSN: 00651583     EISSN: 16890027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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