From ultra-soft slime to hard α-keratins: The many lives of intermediate filaments

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 32-39

  Fudge, Douglas S ^a   Winegard, T ^a   Ewoldt, R H ^b   Beriault, D ^a   Szewciw, L ^a   McKinley, G H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; HAGFISH; METAZOA; MYXINIDAE;

EID: 67749135384     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icp007     Document Type: Article

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