Asymmetric cell division during animal development

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 11-20

  Knoblich, Juergen A ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

HELMINTH PROTEIN; HETEROTRIMERIC GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HETEROTRIMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STEM CELLS;

EID: 0035223205     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35048085     Document Type: Article

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