Karyotyping of Neurospora crassa using synaptonemal complex spreads of translocation quadrivalents

Genome

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 612-618

  Lu, Benjamin C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Karyotype; Kinetochore; Linkage groups; Neurospora; Recombination nodules; Synaptonemal complex; Translocation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CLASSIFICATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; KARYOTYPING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; KARYOTYPING; KINETOCHORES; LINKAGE (GENETICS); NEUROSPORA CRASSA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 33748588950     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/G06-008     Document Type: Article

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