The kinetoplastida endocytic apparatus. Part I: a dynamic system for nutrition and evasion of host defences

Gareth W Morgan1, Belinda S Hall, Paul W Denny

  • 1Wellcome Trust Laboratories for Molecular Parasitology, Dept of Biological Sciences, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Exhibition Road, London, UK.

Trends in Parasitology
|December 11, 2002
PubMed

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