Dictyostelium discoideum. A model system for ultrastructural analyses of cell motility and development

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 96, Issue C, 2010, Pages 197-216

  Koonce, Michael P ^a   Gräf, Ralph ^b  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BOOK; CELL MOTION; DICTYOSTELIUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CELL MOVEMENT; DICTYOSTELIUM; HISTOCYTOLOGICAL PREPARATION TECHNIQUES; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77957001690     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(10)96009-3     Document Type: Book

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