A role for Drosophila SMC4 in the resolution of sister chromatids in mitosis

Current Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 295-307

  Steffensen, Soren ^a   Coelho, Paula A ^a,b   Cobbe, Neville ^c   Vass, Sharron ^c   Costa, Madalena ^a   Hassan, Bassam ^d   Prokopenko, Sergei N ^d   Bellen, Hugo ^d   Heck, Margarete M S ^c   Sunkel, Claudio E ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES IUCS   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTA; INSECTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0035814908     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(01)00096-3     Document Type: Article

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