How do meiotic chromosomes meet their homologous partners?: Lessons from fission yeast

BioEssays

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 526-533

  Yamamoto, Ayumu ^a,b   Hiraoka, Yasushi ^a  

^a CREST Research Project   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; MEIOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; MEIOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 0034989039     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.1072     Document Type: Review

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