Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy as a tool to study the nanoscale organization of chromosomes

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 838-844

  Flors, Cristina ^a   Earnshaw, William C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; MICROSCOPY; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SCANNING NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; STIMULATED EMISSION DEPLETION MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION MICROSCOPY; SUPER RESOLUTION FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY;

EID: 83055184163     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: 18790402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2011.10.004     Document Type: Review

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