Stu-71air-2 is a C. elegans aurora homologue essential for chromosome segregation during embryonic and post-embryonic development

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 82, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 95-108

  Woollard, Alison ^a   Hodgkin, Jonathan ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Cell cycle; Chromosome segregation; Serine threonine kinase

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; AURORA KINASE; HELMINTH PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOMES; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032586716     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(99)00020-9     Document Type: Article

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