Cytokinesis: An emerging unified theory for eukaryotes?

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 717-725

  Hales, Karen G ^a   Bi, Erfei ^b   Wu, Jian Qiu ^a   Adam, Jennifer C ^a   Yu, I Ching ^a   Pringle, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

CELL DIVISION; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOKINESIS; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EXOCYTOSIS; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 0032757588     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(99)00042-3     Document Type: Review

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