Mutations of a redundant α-tubulin gene affect Caenorhabditis elegans early embryonic cleavage via MEI-1/katanin-dependent and -independent pathways

Genetics

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 115-126

  Lu, Chenggang ^a   Mains, Paul E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; GENE PRODUCT; ISOPROTEIN; KATANIN; PROTEIN MEI 1; PROTEIN MEI 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELISM; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; MEI 1 GENE; MEI 2 GENE; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TBA 1 GENE; TBA 2 GENE; ZYGOTE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TUBULIN;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 20444414565     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.030106     Document Type: Article

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