How to halve ploidy: Lessons from budding yeast meiosis

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 3037-3051

  Kerr, Gary William ^a   Sarkar, Sourav ^a   Arumugam, Prakash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; FEAR; Gametogenesis; Meiosis; Monopolin; Ploidy; Shugoshin

Indexed keywords

CELL BUDDING; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE M PHASE; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CENTROMERE; CROSSING OVER; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPLICATION; G1 PHASE CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLOIDY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SISTER CHROMATID;

CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA REPLICATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; G1 PHASE; HUMANS; KINETOCHORES; MEIOSIS; PLOIDIES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; S PHASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 84865623016     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-012-0974-9     Document Type: Review

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