An allometric relationship between mitotic spindle width, spindle length, and ploidy in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1411-1419

  Hara, Yuki ^a,b,c   Kimura, Akatsuki ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; DNA; SPD2 PROTEIN; TPXL 1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HAPLOIDY; METAPHASE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PLOIDY; POLYPLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINDLE CELL;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DNA, HELMINTH; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLOIDIES;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84877114041     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: 19394586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E12-07-0528     Document Type: Article

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