Backward chromosome movement in anaphase, after irradiation of kinetochores or kinetochore fibres

Protoplasma

Volumn 198, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 20-26

  Ilagan, A B ^a   Forer, Arthur ^a   Spurck, T ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anaphase; Interzonal connections; Meiosis; Mitotic forces; Ultraviolet microbeam

Indexed keywords

TIPULIDAE;

EID: 0030861176     PISSN: 0033183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01282127     Document Type: Article

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