Requirement of the spindle checkpoint for proper chromosome segregation in budding yeast meiosis

Science

Volumn 289, Issue 5477, 2000, Pages 300-303

  Shonn, Marion A ^a,d   McCarroll, Robert ^b   Murray, Andrew W ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Cereon Genomics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME SIZE; DOWN SYNDROME; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST;

BIOMECHANICS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DOWN SYNDROME; ESTERASES; KINETOCHORES; MEIOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MUTATION; NONDISJUNCTION, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SPORES, FUNGAL;

SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0034647893     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5477.300     Document Type: Article

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