The unique stem cell system of the immortal larva of the human parasite Echinococcus multilocularis

EvoDevo

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Koziol, Uriel ^a,b   Rauschendorfer, Theresa ^a   Zanon Rodríguez, Luis ^a   Krohne, Georg ^a   Brehm, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Alkaline phosphatase; Argonaute; Cestoda; Echinococcus; Germinative cell; Mucin; Nanos; Neoblast; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897573171     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20419139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-9139-5-10     Document Type: Article

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