How centrioles work: Lessons from green yeast

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 119-125

  Marshall, Wallace F ^a   Rosenbaum, Joel L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRIOLE; CENTROSOME; CHLAMYDOMONAS; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS;

EID: 0033952311     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(99)00065-4     Document Type: Review

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