Meiotic prophase arrest with failure of chromosome synapsis in mice deficient for Dmc1, a germline-specific RecA homolog

Molecular Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 697-705

  Pittman, Douglas L ^a   Cobb, John ^b   Schimenti, Kerry J ^a   Wilson, Lawriston A ^a   Cooper, Deborah M ^a   Brignull, Ember ^a   Handel, Mary Ann ^b   Schimenti, John C ^a  

^a JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; INFERTILITY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; MUTATION; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPHASE; SPERMATOZOON;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; INFERTILITY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OOCYTES; PROPHASE; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0032039077     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80069-6     Document Type: Article

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