Premeiotic aster as a device to anchor the germinal vesicle to the cell surface of the presumptive animal pole in starfish oocytes

Developmental Biology

Volumn 218, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 161-171

  Miyazaki, Atsuko ^a   Kamitsubo, Eiji ^b   Nemoto, Shin Ichi ^a  

^a OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aster; Centrifuge microscope; Centrosome; Germinal vesicle; Meiosis; Microtubules; Oocyte maturation; Starfish

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; NOCODAZOLE; PACLITAXEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTERIAS; CELL SURFACE; CENTRIFUGATION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERMINAL VESICLE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; ASTER; ASTERIAS; ASTEROIDEA;

EID: 0034651945     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9577     Document Type: Article

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