Un ménage à quatre: The molecular biology of chromosome segregation in meiosis

Cell

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 423-440

  Petronczki, Mark ^a   Siomos, Maria F ^a   Nasmyth, Kim ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHESIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

CELL ADHESION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME CHIASM; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DIPLOIDY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; GAMETE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HAPLOIDY; HEREDITY; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; STEM CELL; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

EID: 0037459072     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(03)00083-7     Document Type: Review

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