Background The Aurora gene, a serine-threonine kinase, orginally discovered in Drosophila, has been found to be responsible for a chromosomal segregation defect. The mammalian homologues of Drosophila Aurora have been termed ARK1 (Aurora-related kinase 1) and ARK2. |
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