Role of microtubules and microtubule organizing centers on meiotic chromosome elimination in Sciara ocellaris

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 721-730

  Esteban, M R ^a   Campos, M C C ^b   Perondini, A L P ^b   Goday, C ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chromosome elimination; Diptera; Meiosis; Monopolar spindle; MTOC; Sciaridae

Indexed keywords

CENTRIN; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATID; CHROMOSOME; FLY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOCYTE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOME DELETION; DIPTERA; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULES; MYOSINS; SPERMATOCYTES; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; TUBULIN;

ANIMALIA; DIPTERA; SCIARA OCELLARIS; SCIARIDAE;

EID: 0030967525     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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