Controlling septation in fission yeast: Finding the middle, and timing it right

Current Genetics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 571-584

  Le Goff, Xavier ^a   Utzig, Suzan ^a   Simanis, Viesturs ^a  

^a SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cell division; Cytokinesis; Genetics; Kinase; Mitosis; Mutant; Phosphatase; Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Indexed keywords

CELL DIVISION; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SHAPE; CYTOKINESIS; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; YEAST;

CELL DIVISION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; TIME FACTORS;

EUKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0032792480     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050455     Document Type: Review

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