6 Caught in the Act: Deducing Meiotic Function from Protein Immunolocalization

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 37, Issue C, 1997, Pages 201-218

  Ashley, Terry ^a   Plug, Annemieke ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN, MOUSE; RAD51 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; GENETIC DISORDER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPHASE; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEIOSIS; MICE; PROPHASE; PROTEINS; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 0031961736     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-2153(08)60175-1     Document Type: Article

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