Genes and proteins involved in the control of meiosis

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 4-10

  Critchlow, H M ^a   Payne, A ^a   Griffin, D K ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR; HISTONE; NEUROPEPTIDE;

APOPTOSIS; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL CYCLE; DNA REPAIR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

EID: 3042641078     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000078002     Document Type: Short Survey

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