Unequal cleavage in the early Tubifex embryo

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 257-266

  Shimizu, Takashi ^a   Ishii, Ryuichi ^a   Takahashi, Hirokazu ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asymmetric mitotic apparatus; Cell cortex; Centrosome; Spiralians; Unequal cleavage

Indexed keywords

ACTIN;

ANNELID WORM; BLASTOMERE; CENTROMERE; CYTOSKELETON; EMBRYO; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; ASTER; INVERTEBRATA; SPIRALIA; TUBIFEX;

EID: 0031808861     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.1998.00001.x     Document Type: Review

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