Understanding Microtubule Organizing Centers by Comparing Mutant and Wild-Type Structures with Electron Tomography

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 2007, Issue 79, 2007, Pages 125-143

  O'Toole, Eileen T ^a   Giddings Jr , Thomas H ^a   Dutcher, Susan K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ORGANIZING CENTER; MUTATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROTUBULE-ORGANIZING CENTER; MICROTUBULES; MUTATION; TISSUE EMBEDDING;

EID: 33847212762     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(06)79005-7     Document Type: Review

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