Organization of early frog embryos by chemical waves emanating from centrosomes

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1650, 2014, Pages

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

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Centrosome; Chemical wave; Embryo; Microtubule aster

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 1;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ANURA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CYCLE; CENTROSOME; EMBRYOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION (PROCESS); SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BODY PATTERNING; CDC2 PROTEIN KINASE; CELL CYCLE; CENTROSOME; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84904541297     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0454     Document Type: Review

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