MIX-1: An essential component of the C. elegans mitotic machinery executes X chromosome dosage compensation

Cell

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 265-277

  Lieb, Jason D ^a   Albrecht, Michael R ^a   Chuang, Pao Tien ^a,b   Meyer, Barbara J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN MIX 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTERPHASE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0032559293     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80920-4     Document Type: Article

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