Movers and shakers or anchored: Caenorhabditis elegans nuclei achieve it with KASH/SUN

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 239, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1352-1364

  Zhou, Kang ^a   Hanna Rose, Wendy ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Microtubules; Nuclear migration

Indexed keywords

CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERMLINE MICRONUCLEUS; INTESTINE CELL; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; NUCLEAR PROTEINS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 77951537210     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.22226     Document Type: Review

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