Eukaryotic DNA replication origins: Many choices for appropriate answers

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 728-738

  Méchali, Marcel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

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Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL POPULATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTE; FUNGAL GENOME; HUMAN; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; CELL DIVISION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME; PHYSIOLOGY; XENOPUS;

EUKARYOTA; METAZOA;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENOME; REPLICATION ORIGIN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS;

EID: 77957168933     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2976     Document Type: Review

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