Chromosome segregation: Samurai separation of Siamese sisters

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 14, 1999, Pages

  Glotzer, Michael ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 0033565870     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80329-7     Document Type: Note

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