All Paired up with No Place to Go: Pairing, Synapsis, and DSB Formation in a Balancer Heterozygote

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Gong, Wei J ^a   McKim, Kim S ^b   Hawley, R Scott ^a,c  

^a STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAD51 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CROSSING OVER; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HETEROZYGOTE; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; OOCYTE; REPORTER GENE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HETEROZYGOTE; MEIOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; OOCYTES; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 55449092613     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0010067     Document Type: Article

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