Spontaneous X chromosome MI and MII nondisjunction events in Drosophila melanogaster oocytes have different recombinational histories

Nature Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 406-414

  Koehler, Kara E ^a   Boulton, Christina L ^a   Collins, Heather E ^a   French, Rachael L ^a   Herman, Kristin C ^a   Lacefield, Soni M ^a   Madden, Laurence D ^a   Schuetz, Christopher D ^a   Hawley, R Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONDISJUNCTION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CENTROMERE; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONDISJUNCTION, GENETIC; OOCYTES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0029852774     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1296-406     Document Type: Article

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