Why is meiosis arrested?

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 275-287

  Mira, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; DNA REPAIR; GENE MUTATION; MEIOSIS; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032555897     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1998.0761     Document Type: Article

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