Synapsis and chiasma formation in Caenorhabditis elegans require HIM-3, a meiotic chromosome core component that functions in chromosome segregation

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 2258-2270

  Zetka, Monique C ^a,c   Kawasaki, Ichiro ^b   Strome, Susan ^b   Müller, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Chromosome core; Crossing over; Segregation; Synapsis

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIBODY; PROTEIN; RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME CHIASM; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CROSSING OVER; GENE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MEIOSIS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0033200331     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.17.2258     Document Type: Article

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