Centromeric protein B null mice are viable with no apparent abnormalities

Developmental Biology

Volumn 201, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 135-143

  Perez Castro, Ana V ^a   Shamanski, Fay L ^b   Meneses, Juanito J ^b   Lovato, Tyanna L ^a   Vogel, Kathryn G ^a   Moyzis, Robert K ^c   Pedersen, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CENP B; Centromere; Gene targeting; Meiosis; Mitosis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; SATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; DNA BINDING; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENOTYPE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032530292     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1998.9005     Document Type: Article

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