Bouquet formation in budding yeast: Initiation of recombination is not required for meiotic telomere clustering

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 651-658

  Trelles Sticken, Edgar ^a   Loidl, Josef ^b   Scherthan, Harry ^a,c  

^a The University ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bouquet; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Meiosis; Recombination; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; SPB; Synaptonemal complex; Telomere; Yeast

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TELOMERE; YEAST;

CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MEIOSIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0033002153     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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