Cellular Allometry: The Spindle in Development and Inheritance

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 18, 2009, Pages

  Needleman, Daniel J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL SIZE; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MITOSIS SPINDLE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SHORT SURVEY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL SIZE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS;

EID: 70349300530     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.08.028     Document Type: Short Survey

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