Ultrastructure of the rickettsial endosymbiont "MIDORIKO" in the green alga Carteria cerasiformis as revealed by high-pressure freezing and freeze-substitution fixation

Protoplasma

Volumn 250, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 949-953

  Kawafune, Kaoru ^a   Sato, Mayuko ^b   Toyooka, Kiminori ^b   Nozaki, Hisayoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Elements Chemistry Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carteria cerasiformis; Endosymbiont; High pressure freezing and freeze substitution fixation; Rickettsiaceae; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CARTERIA CERASIFORMIS; CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; ORIENTIA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIACEAE;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; FREEZE DRYING; GREEN ALGA; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; RICKETTSIACEAE; SYMBIOSIS; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE PRESERVATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; CHLOROPHYTA; FREEZE SUBSTITUTION; RICKETTSIACEAE; SYMBIOSIS; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

EID: 84880989403     PISSN: 0033183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00709-012-0469-4     Document Type: Article

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