UNC-85, a C. elegans homolog of the histone chaperone Asf1, functions in post-embryonic neuroblast replication

Developmental Biology

Volumn 319, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 100-109

  Grigsby, Iwen F ^a   Finger, Fern P ^a  

^a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Asf1; C. elegans; Cell division; Histone chaperone; Neuroblast; Post embryonic; Replication

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; HISTONE;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL MATURATION; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA CONTENT; DNA REPLICATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; LARVA; LARVAL STAGE; LOCOMOTION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOTONEURON; MUTANT; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; UNC 85 GENE; YEAST;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 44749089225     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2008.04.013     Document Type: Article

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