Computer simulations and image processing reveal length-dependent pulling force as the primary mechanism for C. elegans male pronuclear migration

Developmental Cell

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 765-775

  Kimura, Akatsuki ^a   Onami, Shuichi ^a,b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ELONGATION; CELL FUNCTION; CENTROSOME; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMBRYO; FERTILIZATION; GROWTH RATE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROSOME; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNEIN ATPASE; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICROTUBULES; MOVEMENT; MUTATION; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; ZYGOTE;

EID: 17844362989     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2005.03.007     Document Type: Article

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