Direct visualization of microtubule flux during metaphase and anaphase in crane-fly spermatocytes

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 5724-5732

  LaFountain Jr , James R ^a   Cohan, Christopher S ^a   Siegel, Alan J ^a   LaFountain, Douglas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHODAMINE; TUBULIN;

ANAPHASE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLY; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MICROINJECTION; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOCYTE;

ANAPHASE; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES; DIPTERA; KINETOCHORES; MALE; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULES; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RHODAMINES; SPERMATOCYTES; TIME FACTORS; TUBULIN;

ANIMALIA; INSECTA; TIPULIDAE;

EID: 9444291362     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E04-08-0750     Document Type: Article

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