Active diffusion: The erratic dance of chromosomal loci

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 7138-7139

  MacKintosh, Fred C ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

BACTERIUM; CHROMOSOME; CYTOPLASM; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE LOCUS; MICROSCOPY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMAL DIFFUSION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; GENETIC LOCI;

EID: 84860803645     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1204794109     Document Type: Note

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