Lipid droplets of bacteria, algae and fungi and a relationship between their contents and genome sizes as revealed by BODIPY and DAPI staining

Cytologia

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 289-299

  Kuroiwa, Tsuneyoshi ^a,f   Ohnuma, Mio ^a,f   Imoto, Yuuta ^b,f   Misumi, Osami ^c,f   Fujiwara, Takayuki ^d   Miyagishima, Shin Ya ^e,f   Sumiya, Nobuko ^e,f   Kuroiwa, Haruko ^a,f  

^a RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d RIKEN   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^f JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Algae; BODIPY; Cyanidioschyzon merolae; Fungi; Genome size; Lipid droplets

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874332439     PISSN: 00114545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1508/cytologia.77.289     Document Type: Article

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