Controlled exchange of chromosomal arms reveals principles driving telomere interactions in yeast

Genome Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 261-271

  Schober, Heiko ^a,b   Kalck, Véronique ^a   Vega Palas, Miguel A ^c   Van Houwe, Griet ^b   Sage, Daniel ^d   Unser, Michael ^d   Gartenberg, Marc R ^e   Gasser, Susan M ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAP1 PROTEIN;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CELL BUDDING; CENTROMERE; CHROMATID; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME ARM; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INTERPHASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; TELOMERE; YEAST;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE;

SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 39049159775     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.6687808     Document Type: Article

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