The synaptonemal complex and meiotic recombination in humans: New approaches to old questions

Chromosoma

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 241-249

  Vallente, Rhea U ^a   Cheng, Edith Y ^b   Hassold, Terry J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN MLH1;

AZOOSPERMIA; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; INFERTILITY; MALE; MEIOSIS; OLIGOSPERMIA; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PACHYTENE; PROPHASE; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; MEIOSIS; OOCYTES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPERMATOCYTES; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

EID: 33645960996     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-006-0058-4     Document Type: Review

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