Pac-man motility of kinetochores unleashed by laser microsurgery

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 23, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 3133-3142

  LaFountain, James R ^a   Cohan, Christopher S ^a   Oldenbourg, Rudolf ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MOTILITY; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLY; LASER MICROBEAM MICRODISSECTION; LASER SURGERY; MICROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SISTER CHROMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; TENSION;

EID: 84865213394     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: 19394586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E12-04-0314     Document Type: Article

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