The leptotene-zygotene transition of meiosis

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue , 1998, Pages 619-697

  Zickler, D ^a   Kleckner, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bouquet; Chromosomes; Movement; Pairing; Recombination; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

CEREAL; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; MEIOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOVEMENT; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE;

EID: 0032444856     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.32.1.619     Document Type: Review

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