Isolation and characterization of fission yeast sns mutants defective at the mitosis-to-interphase transition

Genetics

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1799-1811

  Matynia, Anna ^a   Mueller, Ulrich ^a   Ong, Ngoctuyen ^a   Demeter, Janos ^a   Granger, Aaron L ^a   Hinata, Kaede ^a   Sazer, Shelley ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; EPISTASIS; FUNGUS MUTATION; GENE ISOLATION; INTERPHASE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; INTERPHASE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MITOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

FUNGI; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0031893764     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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