Telomere maintenance without telomerase

Chromosoma

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 63-69

  Biessmann, Harald ^a   Mason, James M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOPROTEIN; REPETITIVE DNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE;

CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; DROSOPHILA; HUMAN; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PLANT; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INSECTS; KLUYVEROMYCES; NUCLEOPROTEINS; PLANTS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TETRAHYMENA;

DIPTERA; EUKARYOTA; INSECTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030824031     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004120050225     Document Type: Review

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