The central apparatus of cilia and eukaryotic flagella

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Loreng, Thomas D ^a   Smith, Elizabeth F ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; FLAGELLUM; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; FLAGELLA; HUMANS;

EID: 85011556783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a028118     Document Type: Article

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