The germ-line-restricted chromosome in the zebra finch: Recombination in females and elimination in males

Chromosoma

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 403-409

  Pigozzi, M I ^a   Solari, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHESIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EUCHROMATIN; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; HEREDITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICRONUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PACHYTENE; POEPHILA CASTANOTIS; PROPHASE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; TISSUE SECTION;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOMES; FEMALE; FINCHES; MALE; MEIOSIS; OOCYTES; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; ELECTRON (BIRD); POEPHILA; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 27944510261     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-005-0025-5     Document Type: Article

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