Chromosome movement during meiotic prophase in crane-fly spermatocytes: IV Actin and the effects of cytochalasin D

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 199-212

  LaFountain Jr , James R ^a   Siegel, Alan J ^a   Rickards, Geoffrey K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Actin; Cytochalasin D; Diakinesis; Melosis; Spermatocytes

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYTOCHALASIN D; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; PHALLOIDIN; RHODAMINE;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CYTOKINESIS; FLY; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; SPERMATOCYTE; TESTIS;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMES; CYTOCHALASIN D; DIPTERA; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; PROPHASE; SPERMATOCYTES; TESTIS;

EID: 0032974742     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1999)43:3<199::AID-CM3>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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