Modeling mitosis

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 88-96

  Mogilner, Alex ^a   Wollman, Roy ^a   Civelekoglu Scholey, Gul ^a   Scholey, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN;

ACCURACY; CELL FUNCTION; CHROMOSOME; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SISTER CHROMATID;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 32644480472     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2005.12.007     Document Type: Review

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