Changes of the cell surface and of the digestive apparatus of dictyostelium discoideum during the starvation period triggering aggregation
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- 1 October 1977
- journal article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of cell biology
- Vol. 75 (1) , 218-236
- https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.75.1.218
Abstract
The effects of starvation on the cell morphology of Dictyostelium discoideum were studied with different cytochemical techniques, and with a morphometric method by which the surface areas of the cell membrane and of the digestive system can be determined.Keywords
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