Using Electron Microscopy to Understand Functional Mechanisms of Chromosome Alignment on the Mitotic Spindle

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 2007, Issue 79, 2007, Pages 259-293

  McEwen, Bruce F ^a,b   Dong, Yimin ^a,b   VandenBeldt, Kristin J ^a  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CENTROMERE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME POSITIONING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME POSITIONING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KINETOCHORES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEINS;

EID: 33847236531     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(06)79011-2     Document Type: Review

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