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Fission yeast telomeres forecast the end of the crisis
Author(s) -
Dehé Pierre-Marie,
Cooper Julia Promisel
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
febs letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.593
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1873-3468
pISSN - 0014-5793
DOI - 10.1016/j.febslet.2010.07.045
Subject(s) - telomere , fission , yeast , schizosaccharomyces pombe , biology , model organism , function (biology) , genetics , budding yeast , saccharomyces cerevisiae , computational biology , microbiology and biotechnology , dna , gene , physics , nuclear physics , neutron
Recent years have placed fission yeast at the forefront of telomere research, as this organism combines a high level of conservation with human telomeres and precise genetic manipulability. Here we highlight some of the latest knowledge of fission yeast telomere maintenance and dysfunction, and illustrate how principles arising from fission yeast research are raising novel questions about telomere plasticity and function in all eukaryotes.