A role for centromere pairing in meiotic chromosome segregation

Genes and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 1946-1951

  Kemp, Benedict ^a,b   Boumil, Rebecca Maxfield ^a   Stewart, Mara N ^a   Dawson, Dean S ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Centromere pairing; Meiosis; Nonexchange segregation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CROSSING OVER; EUKARYOTE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GAMETE; GENETIC LINKAGE; MEIOSIS; MEIOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST;

CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; MEIOSIS;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 4043069397     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1227304     Document Type: Article

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