The rise of model protozoa

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 184-191

  Montagnes, David ^a   Roberts, Emily ^b   Lukeš, Julius ^c   Lowe, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Ecology; Model organism; Physiology; Protist; Teaching; Toxins

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AGING; CELL ORGANELLE; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GRAVITY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; REVIEW; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

ALVEOLATA; ANIMALS; DICTYOSTELIUM; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALIA; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 84859270116     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2012.01.007     Document Type: Review

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