Identification and characterization of factors required for microtubule growth and nucleation in the early C. elegans embryo

Developmental Cell

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 223-236

  Srayko, Martin ^a   Kaya, Aynur ^a   Stamford, Joanne ^a   Hyman, Anthony A ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GAMMA TUBULIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL GROWTH; CELL LABELING; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CENTROSOME; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; GROWTH RATE; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; TELOPHASE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CENTROMERE; DYNEIN ATPASE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; KINESIN; KINETOCHORES; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE-ORGANIZING CENTER; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; TUBULIN;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 22944457527     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2005.07.003     Document Type: Article

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