The XY body: A specialized meiotic chromatin domain

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 296, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 57-63

  Handel, Mary Ann ^a  

^a JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Meiosis; Recombination; Spermatogenesis; Transcription; X chromosome; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN;

AUTOSOME; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MAMMAL CELL; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X CHROMOSOME;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 2142822506     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2004.03.008     Document Type: Review

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