Probing the mechanical architecture of the vertebrate meiotic spindle

Nature Methods

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 167-172

  Itabashi, Takeshi ^a   Takagi, Jun ^a   Shimamoto, Yuta ^a,b   Onoe, Hiroaki ^c   Kuwana, Kenta ^c   Shimoyama, Isao ^c   Gaetz, Jedidiah ^b,d   Kapoor, Tarun M ^b   Ishiwata, Shin'ichi ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MEIOSIS; MEIOSIS SPINDLE; METAPHASE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; ORGANELLE SIZE; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISCOELASTICITY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 59349100815     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1297     Document Type: Article

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