Studies of synaptonemal complexes in farm mammals - A review

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 473-480

  Switonski M ^a   Stranzinger, G ^b  

^a POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME POLYMORPHISM; CROSS BREEDING; FOX; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GOAT; INFERTILITY; KARYOTYPE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PERICENTRIC CHROMOSOME INVERSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; REVIEW; SHEEP; SPERMATOCYTE; SWINE; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

BOS INDICUS; BOS TAURUS; BUBALUS; CANIDAE; CAPRA HIRCUS; MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES; SUS SCROFA; VULPES LAGOPUS; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 0031773411     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/89.6.473     Document Type: Review

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