Unequal cleavage in leech embryos: Zygotic transcription is required for correct spindle orientation in a subset of early blastomeres

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 599-606

  Bissen, Shirley T ^b   Smith, Constance M ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

amanitin; Asymmetric cell division; Centrosome rotation; Helobdella triseralis; Mitotic spindle; Spindle position; Transcriptional inhibition

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMANITIN; GENE PRODUCT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; LEECH; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZYGOTE;

AMANITINS; ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; LEECHES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0030039248     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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