Mechanism and function of poleward flux in Xenopus extract meiotic spindles

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1455, 2005, Pages 623-629

  Mitchison, T J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome; Dynamics; Force; Microtubule; Spindle

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME;

EG5 PROTEIN, XENOPUS; KINESIN; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; KINESIN; KINETOCHORES; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 20544463492     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2004.1616     Document Type: Conference Paper

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