Dare to be different: Asymmetric cell division in Drosophila, C. elegans and vertebrates

Current Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 16, 2004, Pages

  Betschinger, Jörg ^a   Knoblich, Jürgen A ^b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MITOSIS SPINDLE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4344648897     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.08.017     Document Type: Review

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