E pluribus unum: Towards a universal mechanism for spindle assembly

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 413-419

  Wadsworth, Patricia ^a   Khodjakov, Alexey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAN PROTEIN;

CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTROMERE; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOME; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SPERMATOCYTE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 4143116782     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2004.07.004     Document Type: Article

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