X-autosome translocations, meiotic synapsis, chromosome evolution and speciation

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 96, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 33-39

  Ashley, T ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAD51 PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ACROCENTRIC CHROMOSOME; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HETEROZYGOSITY; MALE FERTILITY; MALE STERILITY; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; RECIPROCAL CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROBERTSONIAN CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; THEORY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MAMMAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; ROBERTSONIA;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; MEIOSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0036044178     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000063030     Document Type: Article

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