Evolutionary insights into the role of the essential centromere protein CAL1 in Drosophila

Chromosome Research

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 493-504

  Phansalkar, Ragini ^a   Lapierre, Pascal ^a   Mellone, Barbara G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

CAL1; CENP A; Centromere; Chromatin; Chromosome; CID; Histone variants; Kinetochore; Meiotic drive; Mitosis

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; CENTROMERE SPECIFIC HISTONE H3; CHAPERONE; CHROMOSOME ALIGNMENT DEFECT 1 PROTEIN; CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION RECOGNIZING PROTEIN; SUPPRESSOR OF CHROMOSOME MISSEGREGATION 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CODON; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HISTONES; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CAENORHABDITIS; DIPTERA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCETALES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84864872957     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-012-9299-7     Document Type: Article

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