Dissecting mitosis by RNAi in Drosophila tissue culture cells

Biological Procedures Online

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 153-161

  Maiato, Helder ^a   Sunkel, Claudio E ^a,b   Earnshaw, William C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Kinetochore; MAP; MAST; Microtubule; Mitosis; Orbit; RNAi; Spindle

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GENE PRODUCT; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTION; DROSOPHILA; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; GROWTH CURVE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS INDEX; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; TISSUE CULTURE CELL;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0346670261     PISSN: 14809222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1251/bpo57     Document Type: Article

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