Rad51 immunocytology in rat and mouse spermatocytes and oocytes

Chromosoma

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 207-215

  Moens, Peter B ^a   Chen, David J ^b   Shen, Zhiyuan ^b   Kolas, Nadine ^a   Tarsounas, Madalina ^a   Heng, Henry H Q ^a   Spyropoulos, Barbara ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; HISTONE; RECA PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CYTOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PROPHASE; RAT; SPERMATOCYTE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; PROPHASE; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; RATS; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030831982     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004120050241     Document Type: Article

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