Automated tracking and analysis of centrosomes in early Caenorhabditis elegans embryos

Bioinformatics

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Jaensch, Steffen ^a,b   Decker, Markus ^a   Hyman, Anthony A ^a   Myers, Eugene W ^b  

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

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; CENTROSOME; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; METABOLISM; MITOSIS SPINDLE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; CENTROSOME; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS;

EID: 77954194397     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq190     Document Type: Article

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