Changes in microtubule structures during the first cell cycle of physiologically polyspermic newt eggs

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 210-221

  Iwao, Yasuhiro ^a   Yasumitsu, Kazuhiro ^a   Narihira, Masashi ^a   Jiang, Jianqiao ^b   Nagahama, Yoshitaka ^b  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

fertilization; microtuble; newt eggs; physiological polyspermy

Indexed keywords

TUBULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MICROTUBULE; NEWT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; POLYSPERMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROSOME; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; NOCODAZOLE; OOCYTES; SALAMANDRIDAE; SPERMATOZOA; TUBULIN; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; CYNOPS; CYNOPS PYRRHOGASTER; SALAMANDRIDAE;

EID: 0030897347     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199706)47:2<210::AID-MRD13>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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