Evolutionary conservation between budding yeast and human kinetochores

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 678-687

  Kitagawa, Katsumi ^a   Hieter, Philip ^b,c  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

CENTROMERE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; HUMAN; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; YEAST;

CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; KINETOCHORES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; PHYLOGENY; YEASTS;

EID: 0035462116     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35089568     Document Type: Review

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