Linking asymmetric division to cell fate: Teaching an old microbe new tricks

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 377-381

  Losick, Richard ^a   Dworkin, Jonathan ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOGENETICS; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPOROGENESIS;

EID: 0033558144     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.4.377     Document Type: Review

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