Do Uric Acid Deposits in Zooxanthellae Function as Eye-Spots?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Yamashita, Hiroshi ^a   Kobiyama, Atsushi ^b   Koike, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; EUKARYOTE; EYE; METABOLISM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EUKARYOTA; EYE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; URIC ACID;

EID: 79955889852     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006303     Document Type: Article

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