The Molecular Biology of Schizosaccharomyces Pombe: Genetics, Genomics and Beyond (Paperback)

Fission Yeast in General Genetics.- The Genome and Beyond.- Protein Kinases Driving the Cell Cycle.- Checkpoint Controls Halting the Cell Cycle.- Stress Responses in S. pombe.- DNA Replication in S. pombe.- DNA Repair Pathways.- The Retrotransposons of S. pombe.- Mating-type Cassettes: Structure, Switching and Silencing.- Centromere and Kinetochore Structure and Function.- Chromosome Cohesion and Segregation.- Telomere Organization and Nuclear Movements.- The Mitotic Spindle and Genome Segregation.- The Fission Yeast Actomyosin Cytoskeleton.- Regulation of Cytokinesis.- Control of Cell Polarity and Morphogenesis in Fission Yeast.- Cell Wall Synthesis.- Mating-type Control and Differentiation.- Initiation of Meiosis.- Control of Late Meiosis and Ascospore Formation.- RNA Polymerases and Accessory Factors.- Core Promoters in S. pombe: TATA and HomolD Boxes.- Mechanism and Control of pre-mRNA Splicing.- Transcription Termination.- Ubiquitin-dependent Proteolysis by the Proteasome.- Processing Proteases in S. pombe.- Protein Glycosylation.- Mitochondrial Genetics in a Petite-Negative Yeast.- Fission Yeast Phylogenesis and Evolution