A single internal telomere tract ensures meiotic spindle formation

EMBO Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 252-260

  Tomita, Kazunori ^a,b   Bez, Cécile ^a,c   Fennell, Alex ^a   Cooper, Julia Promisel ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

fission yeast; meiosis; spindle; spindle pole body; telomere

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN POT1; TELOMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINDLE CELL; TELOMERE; YEAST;

CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; MEIOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 84874646591     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2012.218     Document Type: Article

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