Role of intercellular contacts in generating an asymmetric mitotic apparatus in the Tubifex embryo

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 351-362

  Takahashi, Hirokazu ^a   Shimizu, Takashi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asymmetric mitotic apparatus; Cell cortex; Intercellular contact; Tubifex hattai; Unequal cleavage

Indexed keywords

ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; CELL CONTACT; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN;

ANNELIDA; TUBIFEX;

EID: 0031004552     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.1997.t01-2-00011.x     Document Type: Article

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