Meiotic Spindle: Sculpted by Severing

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 2006, Pages

  Ribbeck, Katharina ^a   Mitchison, Timothy J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; KATANIN;

ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULES; OOCYTES;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 33750628867     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.09.048     Document Type: Short Survey

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