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In forming zoospores of Oedogonium, mitochondria were found to contain numerous, evenly-spaced bristle-like structures projecting from the surface of cristae.
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Pickett-Heaps, J.D. “Bristly” cristae in algal mitochondria. Planta 100, 357–359 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00385200
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00385200