Dancing genomes: Fungal nuclear positioning

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 875-886

  Gladfelter, Amy ^a   Berman, Judith ^b  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHECKPOINT KINASE 1; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GENOMIC DNA;

CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL LIFE CYCLE STAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MICROTUBULE ORGANIZING CENTER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOMES; FUNGI; GENOME, FUNGAL; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; MICROTUBULES; OBESITY;

FUNGI;

EID: 70449712524     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2249     Document Type: Review

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