'Dumb' versus 'smart' kinetochore models for chromosome congression during mitosis in vertebrate somatic cells

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 179-185

  Khodjakov, Alexey ^a,b   Gabashvili, Irene S ^a   Rieder, Conly L ^a,b  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL POLARITY; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; HUMANS; KINETOCHORES; MITOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0033009737     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1999)43:3<179::AID-CM1>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Short Survey

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