Cytokinesis in the C. elegans embryo: Regulating contractile forces and a late role for the central spindle

Cell Structure and Function

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 603-607

  Bowerman, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical cytoplasm; Microfilaments; Microtubules; Ubiquitin

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTILE PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; NEDD8 PROTEIN; RNA; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CENTROMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSKELETON; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FLUORESCENCE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; MEIOSIS; MICROFILAMENT; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPERM; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

EID: 0035735949     PISSN: 03867196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1247/csf.26.603     Document Type: Review

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