Bipolar meiotic spindle formation without chromatin

Current Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 1231-1234

  Brunet, Stéphane ^a   Polanski, Zbigniew ^a,b   Verlhac, Marie Hélène ^a   Kubiak, Jacek Z ^a,c   Maro, Bernard ^a  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c CNRS   (France)

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EID: 0032488028     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(07)00516-7     Document Type: Article

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