Methods for studying spindle assembly and chromosome condensation in Xenopus egg extracts.

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Published in Methods Mol Biol on January 01, 2006

Authors

Thomas J Maresca1, Rebecca Heald

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

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