A screen for dynein synthetic lethals in Aspergillus nidulans identifies spindle assembly checkpoint genes and other genes involved in mitosis

Genetics

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 101-116

  Efimov, Vladimir P ^a   Morris, N Ronald ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA, FUNGAL; DYNEIN ATPASE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, LETHAL; GENES, SYNTHETIC; KINESIN; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; PROTEIN KINASES;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031835025     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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