Genetic and cytological characterization of the recombination protein RAD-51 in Caenorhabditis elegans

Chromosoma

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 6-16

  Alpi, Arno ^b   Pasierbek, Pawel ^a   Gartner, Anton ^b   Loidl, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAD51 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GONAD; HETEROZYGOTE; MEIOSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PROPHASE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; WORM; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA REPAIR; GENE DELETION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MEIOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PROPHASE; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0042566182     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-003-0237-5     Document Type: Article

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