Nuclear dynamics, mitosis, and the cytoskeleton during the early stages of colony initiation in Neurospora crassa

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1171-1183

  Roca, M Gabriela ^a   Kuo, Hsiao Che ^a   Lichius, Alexander ^a   Freitag, Michael ^b   Read, Nick D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BENOMYL; DYNACTIN; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; FUSED HETEROCYCLIC RINGS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LATRUNCULIN B; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; THIAZOLIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSKELETON; DRUG EFFECT; FUNGUS SPORE; GERMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEUROSPORA CRASSA; TIME; DRUG EFFECTS;

ACTINS; BENOMYL; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; CELL NUCLEUS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CYTOSKELETON; DYNEINS; GERMINATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SPORES, FUNGAL; THIAZOLIDINES; TIME FACTORS;

NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 77950544993     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00329-09     Document Type: Article

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