Involvement of synaptonemal complex proteins in sex chromosome segregation during marsupial male meiosis

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1240-1253

  Page, Jesús ^a,b   Viera, Alberto ^a   Parra, María Teresa ^a   De La Fuente, Roberto ^a   Suja, José Ángel ^a   Prieto, Ignacio ^c   Barbero, José Luis ^c   Rufas, Julio S ^a   Berríos, Soledad ^b   Fernéndez Donoso, Raúl ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHESIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN STAG3; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX PROTEIN 1; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX PROTEIN 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATID; CHROMOSOME CHIASM; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MARSUPIAL; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; PROPHASE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERMATOCYTE; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TELOPHASE; THYLAMYS ELEGANS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TELOMERE;

METATHERIA; THYLAMYS ELEGANS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; MALE; MARSUPIALIA; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SPERMATOCYTES; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TELOMERE;

EID: 33748084727     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020136     Document Type: Article

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