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Jenna L Wingfield1, Ilaria Mengoni1, Heather Bomberger1,2

  • 1Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, United States.

Elife
|June 1, 2017
PubMed

Keywords:
IFTcell biologychlamydomonas reinhardtiiflagella

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