Explaining lengths and shapes of yeast by scaling arguments

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Riveline, Daniel ^a,b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LIPHY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CELL CYCLE; CELL ELONGATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL LENGTH; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL WALL; LIPID COMPOSITION; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE TENSION; YEAST CELL; CYTOLOGY; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

MITOSIS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 67650550778     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006205     Document Type: Article

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