Kinesin-like microtubule motors in early development

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn , Issue 59, 1999, Pages 227-250

  Chen, Ming Chyuan ^a   Detrich III, H William ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; KINESIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR CLONING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; KINESIN; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 0032622352     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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