Fine structure of elongate polyhedral bodies (carboxysomes) in two Oscillatoria (Cyanophyceae) isolates

T E Jensen1

  • 1Department of Biological Sciences, Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx 10468.

Microbios
|January 1, 1994
PubMed

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