Revisiting the role of microtubules in C. elegans polarity

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 367-369

  Motegi, Fumio ^a   Seydoux, Geraldine ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ALPHA TUBULIN; BETA TUBULIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; KINESIN; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; NOCODAZOLE; RAC1 PROTEIN;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL POLARITY; CENTROSOME; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSKELETON; FERTILIZATION; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPERMATOZOON; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL POLARITY; CENTROSOME; FERTILIZATION; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; ZYGOTE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 35948949434     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 00219525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200710062     Document Type: Review

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