Measuring fungal growth forces with optical tweezers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5930, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-7

  Wright, Graham D ^a   Arlt, Jochen ^a   Poon, Wilson C K ^a   Read, Nick D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fungi; Hyphal tip growth; Neurospora crassa; Optical tweezers; Spitzenk rper

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH KINETICS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

HYPHAL TIP GROWTH; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; SPITZENKÖRPER;

FUNGI;

EID: 31844450576     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.614512     Document Type: Conference Paper

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