The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 34, 525-528,
Copyright © 1951 by The Rockefeller University Press
FAILURE TO FIND INTERCELLULAR PROTOPLASMIC CONTINUITY IN GRIFFITHSIA GLOBULIFERA
Howard J. Curtis 1 and
John L. Myers 1
1 From the Department of Physiology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, and the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
A method was devised for estimtaing the electrical resistance between the cytoplasm of adjacent cells of the red marine alga Griffithsia globulifera. A very high resistance was found, which argues strongly against the existence of protoplasmic continuity in this species.
Submitted on September 22, 1950