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Research Article

Evidence of a M1-muscarinic GPCR homolog in unicellular eukaryotes: featuring Acanthamoeba spp bioinformatics 3D-modelling and experimentations

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Pages 267-275 | Received 06 May 2016, Accepted 10 Jul 2016, Published online: 07 Sep 2016

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