The spindle checkpoint rescues the meiotic segregation of chromosomes whose crossovers are far from the centromere

Nature Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1273-1277

  Lacefield, Soni ^a   Murray, Andrew W ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN MAD2;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CROSSING OVER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINDLE CELL; YEAST CELL;

CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; GENES, CDC; MEIOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 34748877689     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng2120     Document Type: Article

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