Unipolar microtubule array is directly involved in nurse cell-oocyte transport

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 355-362

  Harrison, Rene E ^a   Huebner, Erwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

cytoplasmic dynein; microtubule polarity; telotrophic ovariole

Indexed keywords

ADENYLYLIMIDODIPHOSPHATE; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; N ETHYLMALEIMIDE; VANADIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; CELL TRANSPORT; HEMIPTERA; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ADENYLYL IMIDODIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CHEMOTAXIS; DYNEIN ATPASE; FEMALE; KINESIN; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROTUBULES; OOCYTES; OVARY; RHODNIUS;

HEMIPTERA; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS;

EID: 0030900741     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1997)36:4<355::AID-CM5>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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