Visualization of kinetochores and analysis of their refractility in crane-fly spermatocytes after aldehyde fixation

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 147-159

  Lafountain Jr , James R ^a   Hard, Robert ^a   Siegel, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Centromere; Chromosomes; Meiosis; Spindle fiber

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; FLY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERMATOCYTE; TISSUE FIXATION; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANAPHASE; ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; CHROMOSOMES; DIPTERA; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; GLUTARAL; KINETOCHORES; LARVA; MALE; MICROSCOPY, INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPERMATOCYTES;

EID: 0031744906     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1998)40:2<147::AID-CM4>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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