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Science 31 July 1981:
Vol. 213. no. 4507, pp. 561 - 563
DOI: 10.1126/science.213.4507.561
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Role of Golgi Apparatus in Sorogenesis by the Cellular Slime Mold Fonticula alba

MARY C. DEASEY 1 and LINDSAY S. OLIVE 1

1 Department of Botany, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27514

Aggregating cells of the cellular slime mold Fonticula alba form a volcano-shaped fruiting structure which at maturity bears its spores apically in a globose mucous mass. Numerous dictyosomes forming in the sorogenic cells are involved in the accumulation and deposition of stalk material.

Submitted on February 24, 1981
Revised on April 6, 1981


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