Centrosome Size Sets Mitotic Spindle Length in Caenorhabditis elegans Embryos

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 353-358

  Greenan, Garrett ^a,b   Brangwynne, Clifford P ^a,b,c   Jaensch, Steffen ^a   Gharakhani, Jöbin ^b,c   Jülicher, Frank ^b,c   Hyman, Anthony A ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

Author keywords

CELLBIO

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; SAS 4 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; SAS-4 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; SPD 2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; SPD-2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; TPXL 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; TPXL-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL SIZE; CENTROSOME; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; MITOSIS SPINDLE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RNA INTERFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL SIZE; CENTROSOME; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; RNA INTERFERENCE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 76749121295     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.12.050     Document Type: Article

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