Cohesin Rec8 is required for reductional chromosome segregation at meiosis

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6743, 1999, Pages 461-464

  Watanabe, Yoshinori ^a,b   Nurse, Paul ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIVISION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HAPLOIDY; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEMAGGLUTININS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 0033614934     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/22774     Document Type: Article

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