Quantitative analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans sperm motility and how it is affected by mutants spe11 and unc54

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 98-110

  Royal, Dewey C ^a,c   Royal, Mary Anne ^a,c   Wessels, Deborah ^a   L'Hernault, Steven ^b   Soll, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Mutants; Sperm motility

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASCARIS SUUM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CILIARY MOTILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPODIUM; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; ASCARIS SUUM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; FEMALE; HELMINTH PROTEINS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUTATION; MYOSINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; ASCARIS SUUM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; PSEUDOPODA;

EID: 0030986565     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1997)37:2<98::AID-CM2>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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