Strategies to discover the structural components of cyst and oocyst walls

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1578-1587

  Samuelson, John ^a,b   Bushkin, G Guy ^a,b,c   Chatterjee, Aparajita ^a   Robbins, Phillips W ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOSIS; EQUIPMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; OOCYST; PARASITOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELL WALL; COCCIDIOSIS; EIMERIIDA; HUMANS; OOCYSTS; PARASITOLOGY;

EID: 84888266034     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00213-13     Document Type: Review

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