Autophagy in protists.

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Published in Autophagy on February 01, 2011

Authors

Michael Duszenko1, Michael L Ginger, Ana Brennand, Melisa Gualdrón-López, María Isabel Colombo, Graham H Coombs, Isabelle Coppens, Bamini Jayabalasingham, Gordon Langsley, Solange Lisboa de Castro, Rubem Menna-Barreto, Jeremy C Mottram, Miguel Navarro, Daniel J Rigden, Patricia S Romano, Veronika Stoka, Boris Turk, Paul A M Michels

Author Affiliations

1: Interfaculty Institute for Biochemistry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.

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