Telomeres cluster de novo before the initiation of synapsis: A three- dimensional spatial analysis of telomere positions before and during meiotic prophase

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 5-18

  Bass, Hank W ^a   Marshall, Wallace F ^b   Sedat, John W ^b   Agard, David A ^b   Cande, W Zacheus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CROSSING OVER; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MAIZE; MEIOSIS; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INTERPHASE; KINETICS; MEIOSIS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROPHASE; RNA, MESSENGER; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TELOMERE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0030943322     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.137.1.5     Document Type: Article

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