Hen or egg? Some thoughts on tunneling nanotubes

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1178, Issue , 2009, Pages 129-136

  Rustom, Amin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evolution; Intercellular transfer; Membrane channel; Membrane continuity; Multicellular; Plasmodesmata; TNT; Tunneling nanotube; Virus spread

Indexed keywords

NANOTUBE;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT TISSUE; PLASMODESMA;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 70350445977     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04997.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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