Analysis of meiotic chromosome pairing in the female mouse using a novel minichromosome

Chromosome Research

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 269-276

  Tease, Charles ^a   Fisher, Graham ^a  

^a MRC MAMMALIAN GENETICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Female meiosis; Minichromosomes; Mouse; Synapsis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENOME; GERM CELL; MEIOSIS; MINICHROMOSOME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOMES; DIPLOIDY; DNA PROBES; FEMALE; FETUS; HETEROCHROMATIN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NONDISJUNCTION, GENETIC; OOCYTES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TELOMERE;

EID: 0031826105     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009214706395     Document Type: Article

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