The shock of being united and symphiliosis: Another lesson from plants?

Cell Cycle

Volumn 13, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 2323-2329

  Lazebnik, Yuri ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allopolyploidy; Autopolyploidy; Cancer; Cell fusion; Cell hybrids; Differentiation; Evolution; Plants; Polyploidy; Reprogramming; Tetraploidy

Indexed keywords

ALLOPOLYPLOIDY; AUTOPOLYPLOIDY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PREVENTION; CELL FUNCTION; CENTROSOME; DIPLOIDY; ENDOREDUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT EVOLUTION; POLYPLOIDY; REVIEW; SUPERNUMERARY CHROMOSOME; SYMPHILIOSIS; TETRAPLOIDY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL FUSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT;

ANIMALS; CELL FUSION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; NEOPLASMS; PLANTS; POLYPLOIDY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84905996405     PISSN: 15384101     EISSN: 15514005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cc.29704     Document Type: Review

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