The high variability of subtelomeric heterochromatin and connections between nonhomologous chromosomes, suggest frequent ectopic recombination in rye meiocytes

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 179-185

  Gonzalez Garcia M ^a   Gonzalez Sanchez M ^a   Puertas, María J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME POLYMORPHISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RYE; TELOMERE; TELOPHASE;

CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA, PLANT; HETEROCHROMATIN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MEIOSIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SECALE CEREALE;

SECALE CEREALE;

EID: 33750330007     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000095240     Document Type: Article

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