Meiotic chromosomes: Integrating structure and function

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue , 1999, Pages 603-754

  Zickler, D ^a   Kleckner, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SISTER CHROMATID; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033368701     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.33.1.603     Document Type: Review

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