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Mating Interactions in Chlamydomonas

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Critical readings of this review by Drs Kenneth Bergman, Charlene Forest, Donald Weeks, and Lutz Wiese are gratefully acknowledged, as are the grants from the N.I.H. and the Maria Moors Cabot Foundation for Botanical Research at Harvard University which supported the research reported from my laboratory.

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    J. L. Reissig

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Goodenough, U.W. (1977). Mating Interactions in Chlamydomonas . In: Reissig, J.L. (eds) Microbial Interactions. Receptors and Recognition, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9698-1_8

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