Yeast nuclei display prominent centromere clustering that is reduced in nondividing cells and in meiotic prophase

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 21-29

  Jin, Quan Wen ^a   Trelles Sticken, Edgar ^b   Scherthan, Harry ^b   Loidl, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE CLUSTER; KARYOTYPE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TELOMERE;

ANAPHASE; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL POLARITY; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA PROBES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; PROPHASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE;

EID: 0032489839     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.141.1.21     Document Type: Article

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