Interactions between mgr, asp, and polo: asp function modulated by polo and needed to maintain the poles of monopolar and bipolar spindles

Chromosoma

Volumn 107, Issue 6-7, 1998, Pages 452-460

  Gonzalez, Cayetano ^a   Sunkel, Claudio E ^b   Glover, David M ^c  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL MUTANT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DROSOPHILA; GENE MUTATION; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS INHIBITION; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032447326     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004120050329     Document Type: Conference Paper

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