Analyzing the effects of delaying aster separation on furrow formation during cytokinesis in the Caenorhabditis elegans embryo

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 50-62

  Lewellyn, Lindsay ^a,b   Dumont, Julien ^a   Desai, Arshad ^a,b   Oegema, Karen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH PROTEIN; PROTEIN TPXL 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANAPHASE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; CYTOKINESIS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 75649121139     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E09-01-0089     Document Type: Article

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