There is an upper limit of chromosome size for normal development of an organism

Cell

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 515-520

  Schubert, I ^a   Oud, J L ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME SIZE; DEVELOPMENT; FERTILITY; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; TELOPHASE;

EID: 0030936883     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81891-7     Document Type: Article

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