The birth of the centromere

Cell Cycle

Volumn 6, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 2872-2876

  Villasante, Alfredo ^a   Méndez Lago, María ^a   Abad, José P ^a   De Garcíni, Esteban Montejo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Centromere; Concerted evolution; Microtubules; Neocentromere; Telomere

Indexed keywords

TUBULIN;

CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CYTOSKELETON; EUKARYOTE; HUMAN; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; TELOMERE;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 37549012939     PISSN: 15384101     EISSN: 15514005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cc.6.23.5047     Document Type: Review

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