Growth, interaction, and positioning of microtubule asters in extremely large vertebrate embryo cells

Cytoskeleton

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 738-750

  Mitchison, Timothy ^a   Wühr, Martin ^a   Nguyen, Phuong ^a   Ishihara, Keisuke ^a   Groen, Aaron ^a   Field, Christine M ^a  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aster; Centrosome; Cleavage; Embryo; Microtubule

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASMIC DYNEIN;

BLASTOMA; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL DENSITY; CELL GROWTH; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTROSOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMBRYO CELL; FERTILIZATION; INTERPHASE; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASTER; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NEMERTEA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZEBRA FISH; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; CENTROSOME; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; INTERPHASE; MICROTUBULES; VERTEBRATES;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84868001356     PISSN: 19493584     EISSN: 19493592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.21050     Document Type: Review

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