Discovery of an Unconventional Centromere in Budding Yeast Redefines Evolution of Point Centromeres

Current Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 2026-2033

  Kobayashi, Norihiko ^a   Suzuki, Yutaka ^b   Schoenfeld, Lori W ^c,d   Müller, Carolin A ^e   Nieduszynski, Conrad ^e   Wolfe, Kenneth H ^f   Tanaka, Tomoyuki U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCETACEAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

FUNGAL DNA;

BUDDING YEAST; CENTROMERE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

CENTROMERE; DNA, FUNGAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 84938738904     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: 18790445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.023     Document Type: Article

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