Abstract
The cell cycle has undergone major advances in the last four years. A better understanding of how cells divide has been possible thanks to the fusion of two independent areas of research, one exploiting fungal genetics and molecular biology in Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Aspergillus nidulans, and the second based on biochemistry in Xenopus and mammalian cell lines. Here we review how the genes involved in the control of the cell cycle in fission yeast were discovered and how their gene products interact with each other.
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Moreno, S., Nurse, P. (1993). Cell cycle regulation in fission yeast. In: Maresca, B., Kobayashi, G.S., Yamaguchi, H. (eds) Molecular Biology and its Application to Medical Mycology. NATO ASI Series, vol 69. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84625-0_1
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