Telomere attachment and clustering during meiosis

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 117-124

  Scherthan, H ^a,b  

^a Institut fur Radiobiologie der Bundeswehr   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actin; Bouquet; Chromosome dynamics; Meiosis; Nuclear envelope attachment; Pairing; Telomere

Indexed keywords

ACTIN FILAMENT; CHROMOSOME; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PROPHASE; REVIEW; SYNAPSE; TELOMERE;

ACTINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; MEIOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; TELOMERE;

EID: 33846546107     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-006-6463-2     Document Type: Review

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