Defective meiosis in telomere-silencing mutants of Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6678, 1998, Pages 825-828

  Nimmo, Elaine R ^a   Pidoux, Alison L ^a   Perry, Paul E ^a   Allshire, Robin C ^a  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE MUTATION; MEIOSIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TELOMERE;

CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MEIOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MUTATION; PROPHASE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EQUISETUM; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0032560102     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/33941     Document Type: Article

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