Calling heads from tails: the role of mathematical modeling in understanding cell polarization

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 74-81

  Onsum, Matthew D ^a   Rao, Christopher V ^b  

^a MERRIMACK PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CELL POLARITY; CHEMOTAXIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CELL POLARITY; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 60749120831     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2009.01.001     Document Type: Review

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