Chromosome sites play dual roles to establish homologous synapsis during meiosis in C. elegans

Cell

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1037-1050

  MacQueen, Amy J ^a,d   Phillips, Carolyn M ^b   Bhalla, Needhi ^b,c   Weiser, Pinky ^c   Villeneuve, Anne M ^a   Dernburg, Abby F ^b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FEMALE; KARYOTYPE; KINETICS; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 27744587690     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2005.09.034     Document Type: Article

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