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Nutritive Spheres in Amœba proteus Y

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THE impetus given to the investigation of cytoplasmic inclusions by the ultra- and electric-centrifuge technique used in the recent work of Brontë Gatenby and his pupils has raised once more the controversy concerning the exact nature of the nutritive spheres in Amœba proteus Y.

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MONICA Nutritive Spheres in Amœba proteus Y. Nature 143, 685 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143685a0

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