Fission yeast Taz1 protein is required for meiotic telomere clustering and recombination

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6678, 1998, Pages 828-831

  Cooper, Julia Promisel ^a,b   Watanabe, Yoshinori ^a   Nurse, Paul ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; TELOMERE; YEAST;

CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0032560121     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/33947     Document Type: Article

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