Amoeboid motility without actin: Insights into the molecular mechanism of locomotion using the major sperm protein (MSP) of nematodes

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 194, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 342-344

  Stewart, Murray ^a   Roberts, Thomas M ^b   Italiano Jr , Joseph E ^b   King, Karen L ^b   Hammel, Robin ^b   Parathasathy, G ^b   Bullock, Timothy L ^a   Mccoy, Airlee J ^a   Kent, Helen ^a   Haaf, Andreas ^a   Neuhaus, David ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; NEMATODA; VERMES;

EID: 0032104331     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1543107     Document Type: Conference Paper

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