A study of meiotic pairing, nondisjunction and germ cell death in laboratory mice carrying Robertsonian translocations

Genetical Research

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 239-247

  Everett, C A ^a,b   Searle, J B ^a,c   Wallace, B M N ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPHASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONDISJUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; ROBERTSONIAN CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION;

ANIMALIA; ROBERTSONIA;

EID: 0029894470     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0016672300033723     Document Type: Article

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