Chromosome Segregation: Correcting Improperly Attached Chromosomes

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2006, Pages

  Zhang, Xin ^a   Walczak, Claire E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURORA KINASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ANIMAL; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; KINETOCHORES; MICROTUBULES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 33750616701     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.08.008     Document Type: Short Survey

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