Cover Image: The fungivorous amoeba Protostelium aurantium targets redox homeostasis and cell wall integrity during intracellular killing of Candida parapsilosis (Cellular Microbiology 11/2021)
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The fungivorous amoeba Protostelium aurantium feeds on a wide range of fungal species. image shows amoebae digesting GFP-expressing cells the human pathogenic yeast Candida parapsilosis. For further details, readers are referred to article by Radosa et al. p. e13389 this issue.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cellular Microbiology
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1462-5814', '1462-5822']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cmi.13396