Nuclear DNA content varies with cell size across human cell types

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1-27

  Gillooly, James F ^a   Hein, Andrew ^a   Damiani, Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PLOIDY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; DNA; HUMANS; PLOIDIES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84930419212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a019091     Document Type: Article

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