3 Contractile Vacuoles
Annual Plant Reviews book series, Volume 5: Vacuolar Compartments
Peter Luykx,
Peter Luykx
Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, 33 124-042 1 USA
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Peter Luykx
Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, 33 124-042 1 USA
Search for more papers by this authorFirst published: 19 April 2018
This article was originally published in 2000 in Vacuolar Compartments, Volume 5 (ISBN 9781841271125) of the Annual Plant Reviews book series, this volume edited by David G. Robinson and John C. Rogers. The article was republished in Annual Plant Reviews online in April 2018.
Abstract
The sections in this article are
- Introduction
- The Contractile Vacuole Complex and the CV Cycle: An Overview
- Biochemistry
- Osmosensing and Signal Transduction
- Water Transport
- Membrane Fusion and Recycling
- ‘Contraction’
- Summary
- Acknowledgments
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