Hanging on to your homolog: The roles of pairing, synapsis and recombination in the maintenance of homolog adhesion

Chromosoma

Volumn 109, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 3-9

  Walker, Michelle Y ^a   Hawley, R Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ADHESION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TELOMERE; YEAST;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; BOMBYX; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES; DNA; DROSOPHILA; MEIOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROPHASE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TELOMERE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0033933012     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004120050407     Document Type: Review

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