Pac-Man does not resolve the enduring problem of anaphase chromosome movement

Protoplasma

Volumn 215, Issue 1-4, 2001, Pages 16-20

  Pickett Heaps, J D ^a   Forer, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anaphase; Fluxing; Microtubule; Mitosis

Indexed keywords

ANAPHASE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; ENERGY; MICROTUBULE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; TUBULIN;

ANAPHASE; CHROMOSOMES; KINETOCHORES; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT;

EID: 0035047579     PISSN: 0033183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01280300     Document Type: Article

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