GFP fusions to a microtubule motor protein to visualize meiotic and mitotic spindle dynamics in Drosophila

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn , Issue 58, 1999, Pages 153-163

  Endow, Sharyn A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE PROTEINS; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 0032622084     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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