DNA content of a functioning chicken kinetochore

Chromosome Research

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 7-13

  Ribeiro, Susana Abreu ^a,b   Vagnarelli, Paola ^a,c   Earnshaw, William C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Centromere; Chromosome; Condensin; Heterochromatin; Kinetochores

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CONDENSIN; HISTONE H3; AUTOANTIGEN; DNA; NONHISTONE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CENTROMERE; CHICKEN; CHROMATIN; DNA CONTENT; GENOME SIZE; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOICHIOMETRY; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROTEIN FOLDING;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; CELL LINE; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KINETOCHORES; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 84900456818     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-014-9410-3     Document Type: Article

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