Telomere Attachment, Meiotic Chromosome Condensation, Pairing, and Bouquet Stage Duration Are Modified in Spermatocytes Lacking Axial Elements

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 827-837

  Liebe, Bodo ^a   Alsheimer, Manfred ^b   Höög, Christer ^c   Benavente, Ricardo ^b   Scherthan, Harry ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; COHESIN; PROTEIN SCP2; PROTEIN STAG3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME 12; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 8; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HAPLOIDY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; SISTER CHROMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TELOMERE;

ACETYL-COA C-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIDS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SPERMATOCYTES; TELOMERE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; TRIXIS;

EID: 0742270618     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E03-07-0524     Document Type: Article

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