HTP-1-dependent constraints coordinate homolog pairing and synapsis and promote chiasma formation during C. elegans meiosis

Genes and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 2727-2743

  Martinez Perez, Enrique ^a   Villeneuve, Anne M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Homolog pairing; HTP 1; Meiosis; Nuclear reorganization; Recombination; Synapsis

Indexed keywords

CHECKPOINT KINASE 2; HORMA DOMAIN PROTEIN 1; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SYP2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME CHIASM; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CROSSING OVER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GONAD; INHIBITION KINETICS; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEFECT; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SISTER CHROMATID; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; X CHROMOSOME;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 27744498563     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1338505     Document Type: Article

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