Rethinking anaphase: Where "Pac-Man" fails and why a role for the spindle matrix is likely

Protoplasma

Volumn 192, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 1-10

  Pickett Heaps, J D ^a   Forer, A ^b   Spurck, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Kinetochore; Microtubules; Mitosis; Pac Man; Tensegrity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002725539     PISSN: 0033183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01273239     Document Type: Article

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