Poleward microtubule flux is a major component of spindle dynamics and anaphase A in mitotic Drosophila embryos

Current Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 1670-1674

  Maddox, Paul ^a   Desai, Arshad ^b   Oegema, Karen ^b   Mitchison, Timothy J ^c   Salmon, E D ^d  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPHASE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANAPHASE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; KINETOCHORES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS;

ANIMALIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; INSECTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036792853     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)01183-1     Document Type: Article

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