Nonrandom chromosome segregation in male meiosis of a sciarid fly: Elimination of paternal chromosomes in first division is mediated by non- kinetochore microtubules

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 84-94

  Fuge, Harald ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

chromosome elimination; monopolar spindle; non kinetochore transport; polar ejection force; retrograde chromosome movement; Trichosia pubescens

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POLARITY; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOGENETICS; FLY; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; DIPTERA; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; KINETOCHORES; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULES; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS;

SCIARIDAE; TRICHOMEGALOSPHYS PUBESCENS; TRICHOSIA;

EID: 0031021894     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1997)36:1<84::AID-CM8>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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