Chromosome-wide regulation of meiotic crossover formation in Caenorhabditis elegans requires properly assembled chromosome axes

Genetics

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1275-1292

  Nabeshima, Kentaro ^a   Villeneuve, Anne M ^a,b   Hillers, Kenneth J ^a,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME CHIASM; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CROSSING OVER; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC REGULATION; MEIOSIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MEIOSIS; MUTATION; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; X CHROMOSOME;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

EID: 10844246404     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.030700     Document Type: Article

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