Meiotic telomeres: A matchmaker for homologous chromosomes

Genes to Cells

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 405-413

  Hiraoka, Yasushi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PAIRING; FUNGAL GENETICS; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; REVIEW; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; TELOMERE;

CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; MEIOSIS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; TELOMERE;

EID: 0031818927     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1998.00205.x     Document Type: Review

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