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Immunofluorescence Analysis of Endogenous and Exogenous Centromere-kinetochore Proteins
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The structure of the cold-stable kinetochore fiber in metaphase PtK1 cells

C L Rieder

    Chromosoma
    |January 1, 1981
    PubMed

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