The Cytoskeleton of Schizosaccharomyces pombe

The Cytoskeleton of Schizosaccharomyces pombe

The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe offers a number of advantages over Saccharomyces cerevisae principally as it is so much larger and that much easier to study immunocytochemically, while also being genetically tractable.

Forsburg Pombe pages at Salk US.

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