Mouse Sycp1 functions in synaptonemal complex assembly, meiotic recombination, and XY body formation

Genes and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1376-1389

  De Vries, Femke A T ^a   De Boer, Esther ^b   Van Den Bosch, Mike ^a   Baarends, Willy M ^c   Ooms, Marja ^c   Yuan, Li ^d   Liu, Jian Guo ^d   Van Zeeland, Albert A ^a   Heyting, Christa ^b   Pastink, Albert ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chromosome pairing; Meiosis; Mouse; Recombination; Synaptonemal complex; XY body

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; INTERMEDIN; PROTEIN MLH1; RAD51 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; INFERTILITY; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATOCYTE; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPERMATOCYTES; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

DIPLONEMA;

EID: 22344442015     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.329705     Document Type: Article

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