Key players in chromosome segregation in Caenorhabditis elegans

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1529-1557

  Kitagawa, Risa ^a  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Kinetochore; Review; Spindle assembly checkpoint

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES; KINETOCHORES; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS;

EID: 59449103161     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/3323     Document Type: Article

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