Absence of furrowing activity following regional cortical tension reduction in sand dollar blastomere and fertilized egg fragment surfaces

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 441-447

  Rappaport, R ^a  

^a MOUNT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical tension gradient; Cytokinesis; Division mechanism

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHALASIN D;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; NONHUMAN; SEA URCHIN; TENSION;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; CYTOCHALASINS; MICROINJECTIONS; OVUM; SEA URCHINS; SURFACE TENSION;

ANIMALIA; CLYPEASTER SUBDEPRESSUS; ECHINARACHNIUS PARMA; ECHINOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032813961     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169x.1999.00439.x     Document Type: Article

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