The tubulin repertoire of Caenorhabditis elegans sensory neurons and its context-dependent role in process outgrowth

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 27, Issue 23, 2016, Pages 3717-3728

  Lockhead, Dean ^a   Schwarz, Erich M ^b   O'hagan, Robert ^c   Bellotti, Sebastian ^c   Krieg, Michael ^a   Barr, Maureen M ^c   Dunn, Alexander R ^a,d   Sternberg, Paul W ^e   Goodman, Miriam B ^a  

^a Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology ^*  (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e California Institute of Technology   (United States)

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EID: 84995780929     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: 19394586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E16-06-0473     Document Type: Article

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