Centromeres put epigenetics in the driver's seat

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 662-669

  Dawe, R Kelly ^a,b   Henikoff, Steven ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ^*  (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHESIN; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE H3;

BASE PAIRING; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; EPIGENETICS; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SISTER CHROMATID;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; DNA; DROSOPHILA; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; HISTONES; KINETOCHORES; MEIOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33751216131     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2006.10.004     Document Type: Review

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