Polarization of the anterior-posterior axis of C. Elegans is a microtubule-directed process

Nature

Volumn 408, Issue 6808, 2000, Pages 89-92

  Wallenfang, Matthew R ^a   Seydoux, Geraldine ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL POLARITY; CENTROSOME; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL POLARITY; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034597760     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35040562     Document Type: Article

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