The mouse RecA-like gene Dmc1 is required for homologous chromosome synapsis during meiosis

Molecular Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 707-718

  Yoshida, Kayo ^a   Kondoh, Gen ^a   Matsuda, Yoichi ^b   Habu, Toshiyuki ^a   Nishimune, Yoshitake ^a   Morita, Takashi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; DMC1H PROTEIN, MOUSE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OVARY; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; TESTIS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOTYPE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; REC A RECOMBINASES; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTIS;

EID: 0032037422     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80070-2     Document Type: Article

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