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Science 25 May 1979:
Vol. 204. no. 4395, pp. 858 - 859
DOI: 10.1126/science.204.4395.858
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"Transfer Connections": Specialized Pathways for Nutrient Translocation in a Red Alga?

RICHARD WETHERBEE 1

1 School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3052, Australia

"Transfer connections" are morphologically and developmentally distinct pit connections in Polysiphonia (Ceramiales). They are intracellular rather than extracellular and have been observed between all cells of the diploid carposporophyte plus those specialized cells of the gametophyte suspected of providing nutritive materials to it.

Submitted on November 20, 1978
Revised on February 22, 1979


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Pit Connections and Translocation in Red Algae.
C. M. PUESCHEL (1980)
Science 209, 422-423
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