Knockout mice provide novel insights into meiotic chromosome and telomere dynamics

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 103, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 235-244

  Scherthan, H ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^b Institut fur Radiobiologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATM PROTEIN; CORE PROTEIN; HISTONE H2A; LAMIN A; PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; SYCP 3 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; DNA REPAIR; HISTONES; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TELOMERE;

EID: 1842423495     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000076809     Document Type: Review

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