Size scaling of microtubule assemblies in early xenopus embryos

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Mitchison, Timothy J ^a,b   Ishihara, Keisuke ^a,b   Nguyen, Phuong ^a,b   Wühr, Martin ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN;

ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; CENTROSOME; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EMBRYOLOGY; INTERPHASE; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; NONMAMMALIAN EMBRYO; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINDLE APPARATUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; CENTROSOME; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; INTERPHASE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; OOCYTES; SPINDLE APPARATUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84943338703     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a019182     Document Type: Article

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