Power law relationship between cell cycle duration and cell volume in the early embryonic development of Caenorhabditis elegans

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 6, Issue JAN, 2015, Pages

  Arata, Yukinobu ^a,b   Takagi, Hiroaki ^c   Sako, Yasushi ^b   Sawa, Hitoshi ^a,d  

^a RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell cycle duration; Cell size; Ima 3 Importin ; Nuclear cytoplasmic volume ratio; Power law

Indexed keywords

KARYOPHERIN ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE DURATION; CELL CYCLE PARAMETERS; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CELL DIVISION; CELL ELONGATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTERMITOTIC PHASE; NEMATODE LIFE CYCLE STAGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR SIZE; NUCLEAR VOLUME; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; WILD TYPE;

EID: 84926452317     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00529     Document Type: Article

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