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Engulfment of Prochloron cells by cells of the ascidian, Lissoclinum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Guy Cox
Guy Cox
Affiliation:
Electron Microscope Unit, University of Sydney, N.S.W. 2006, Australia
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Serial-section electron micrographs have been obtained of the phagocytosis of Prochloron cells by amoebocytes of the ascidian Lissoclinum voeltzkowi (Michaelsen). This may answer the hitherto puzzling question of how the host tunicate benefits from photosynthetic symbionts situated in an excurrent water flow.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 63 , Issue 1 , February 1983 , pp. 195 - 198
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1983

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