Cell Shape: Taking the Heat

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Kunda, Patricia ^a   Rohn, Jennifer L ^a   Baum, Buzz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; EYE PROTEIN; SPACEMAKER PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CELL SHAPE; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; HEAT; MECHANORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CELL SHAPE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; HOT TEMPERATURE; MECHANORECEPTORS;

EID: 44349160720     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.04.032     Document Type: Short Survey

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