Development of the Macronuclear Anlage in the Ciliate Chilodonella Uncinate. I. Morphological and Cytophotometric Studies on the Evolution of DNA

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Journal Chromosoma

Specialty Molecular Biology

Date 1974 Jan 1

PMID 4217265

Citations 3

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C K PYNE

F Ruch

U Leemann

S Schneider

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