Structure of the chromosome VII centromere region in Neurospora crassa: Degenerate transposons and simple repeats

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 5465-5477

  Cambareri, Edward B ^a   Aisner, Rafael ^a   Carbon, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 7; GENE STRUCTURE; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON;

NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031839901     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.9.5465     Document Type: Article

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