Components of the spindle-assembly checkpoint are essential in Caenorhabditis elegans

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 514-521

  Kitagawa, Risa ^a   Rose, Ann M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

BENOMYL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HELMINTH PROTEIN; MAD2 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; MDF 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; MDF 2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; MDF-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; MDF-2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; NOCODAZOLE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ESSENTIAL GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; GERM CELL; HERMAPHRODITISM; HOMOZYGOTE; LETHAL GENE; MALE; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BENOMYL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, LETHAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GERM CELLS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HERMAPHRODITISM; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MUTATION; NOCODAZOLE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0033257869     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/70309     Document Type: Article

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