Spindle alignment is achieved without rotation after the first cell cycle in Drosophila embryonic neuroblasts

Development

Volumn 136, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 3393-3397

  Rebollo, Elena ^a   Roldán, Mónica ^b   Gonzalez, Cayetano ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Asymmetric division; Drosophila; Neuroblast; Spindle alignment

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CENTROSOME; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO POLARITY; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL SUMMATION; SPINDLE CELL; TEMPORAL SUMMATION;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CELL POLARITY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; LARVA; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; NEURONS;

EID: 70350146680     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.041822     Document Type: Article

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