Cytokinesis: Rho and formins are the ringleaders

Current Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 23, 2002, Pages

  Huckaba, Thomas M ^a   Pon, Liza A ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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ANIMALIA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 0036898535     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)01316-7     Document Type: Review

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