Two Different Size-Distributions of Engulfment-Related Vesicles Among Symbiotic Protists of the Lower Termite, Reticulitermes speratus

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 211-214

  Kiuchi, Isao ^a   Moriya, Shigeharu ^a   Kudo, Toshiaki ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

endosome; phagosome; symbiotic protists; termite

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862817537     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.19.211     Document Type: Article

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