A maize homolog of mammalian CENPC is a constitutive component of the inner kinetochore

Plant Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1227-1238

  Kelly Dawe, R ^a,b   Reed, Lisa M ^a   Yu, Hong Guo ^a   Muszynski, Michael G ^c   Hiatt, Evelyn N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Pioneer Hi Bred International Inc ^*  (United States)

^c PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CENTROMERE; CENTROMERE PROTEIN C; MAIZE; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY; MITOSIS;

MAMMALIA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0033165676     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.11.7.1227     Document Type: Article

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