Bipolar, anastral spindle development in artificially activated sea urchin eggs

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 237, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1348-1358

  Henson, John H ^a,b,c   Fried, Christopher A ^a,b,c   McClellan, Mary K ^a,c   Ader, Jason ^a   Davis, Jessica E ^a,c   Oldenbourg, Rudolf ^b   Simerly, Calvin R ^b,d  

^a DICKINSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MOUNT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anastral; Centrosome; Kinesin; Sea urchin; Spindle

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; KINESIN; KINESIN 13; KINESIN 5; KINESIN 6; MOLECULAR MOTOR; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN;

ANAPHASE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CENTRIOLE; CENTROSOME; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; LYTECHINUS; METAPHASE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA URCHIN;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; CELL POLARITY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; LYTECHINUS; MALE; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; NUCLEAR MATRIX-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; OOCYTES;

ECHINOIDEA; LYTECHINUS PICTUS;

EID: 43449095722     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21533     Document Type: Article

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