Septins in the Metazoan Model Systems Drosophila Melanogaster and Caenorhabditis Elegans

The Septins

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 147-168

  Field, Christine M ^a   Maddox, Amy Shaub ^b   Pringle, John R ^c   Oegema, Karen ^d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Cellularization; Cytokinesis; Drosophilia; Filament formation; Fly; GTP binding; Nervous system; Neural development; Septin complexes; Worm

Indexed keywords

EID: 65849405223     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470779705.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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