Meiosis in carriers of heteromorphic bivalents: Sex differences and implications for male fertility

Chromosome Research

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 313-324

  Peters, Antoine H F M ^a   Plug, Annemieke W ^b   De Boer, Peter ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome pairing; Reciprocal translocation; Sterility; Synapsis; Synaptonemal complex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME BIVALENT; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPROCAL CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOMES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; PROPHASE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030766645     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:CHRO.0000038762.60086.ef     Document Type: Article

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