Telomere maintenance in fission yeast requires an est1 ortholog

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 575-580

  Beernink, Hans T H ^a,d   Miller, Kyle ^a,b   Deshpande, Atul ^a   Bucher, Philipp ^c   Cooper, Julia Promisel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^d Zyomyx Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0037380086     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(03)00169-6     Document Type: Article

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