A Caenorhabditis elegans cohesion protein with functions in meiotic chromosome pairing and disjunction

Genes and Development

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1349-1360

  Pasierbek, Pawel ^a   Jantsch, Michael ^a   Melcher, Martin ^a   Schleiffer, Alexander ^b   Schweizer, Dieter ^a   Loidl, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Meiosis; Meiotic pairing; Recombination; Sister chromatid cohesion; Synaptonemal complex

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SISTER CHROMATID;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMATIDS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MEIOSIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034984843     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.192701     Document Type: Article

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