8 Chromosome Segregation during Meiosis: Building an Unambivalent Bivalent

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 37, Issue C, 1997, Pages 263-299

  Moore, Daniel P ^a   Orr Weaver, Terry L ^a  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CENTROMERE; CHROMATID; CHROMOSOME; CROSSING OVER; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIDS; CHROMOSOMES; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; KINETOCHORES; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MUTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0031972533     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-2153(08)60177-5     Document Type: Article

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