Dissection of cell division processes in the one cell stage Caenorhabditis elegans embryo by mutational analysis

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 927-946

  Gönczy, Pierre ^a   Schnabel, Heinke ^b,d   Kaletta, Titus ^b,e   Amores, Ana Duran ^a   Hyman, Tony ^a,c   Schnabel, Ralf ^b,d  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

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

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^e Devgen   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Centrosomes; Genetics; Microtubules; Mitosis; Video microscopy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; MICROTUBULE; MODEL; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA; INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA;

EID: 0342288145     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.144.5.927     Document Type: Article

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