Direct evidence of a role for heterochromatin in meiotic chromosome segregation

Cell

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 135-146

  Dernburg, Abby F ^a,c   Sedat, John W ^a   Hawley, R Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME CHIASM; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; HETEROCHROMATIN; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030581163     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80084-7     Document Type: Article

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