Chromatin in a marine picoeukaryote is a disordered assemblage of nucleosomes

Chromosoma

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 377-386

  Gan, Lu ^a,b   Ladinsky, Mark S ^a   Jensen, Grant J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON CRYOTOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; OSTREOCOCCUS; OSTREOCOCCUS TAURI; POLYMER MELT CHROMATIN; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EUKARYOTA; OSTREOCOCCUS TAURI;

CHLOROPHYTA; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; KINETOCHORES; MITOSIS; NUCLEOSOMES;

EID: 84885863242     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: 14320886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-013-0423-z     Document Type: Article

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