Kinetochore capture and bi-orientation on the mitotic spindle

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 929-942

  Tanaka, Tomoyuki U ^a   Stark, Michael J R ^a   Tanaka, Kozo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPHASE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; HUMAN; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMETAPHASE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; YEAST;

CELL CYCLE; KINETOCHORES; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 28844457984     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1764     Document Type: Review

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