Perspectives on the Ciliated Protozoan Tetrahymena thermophila

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 109, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-7

  Collins, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autophagy; Biogenesis; Breakage; Programmed nuclear death; Remodeling; Sexual reproduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858721065     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385967-9.00001-3     Document Type: Chapter

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