Inter-sex variation in synaptonemal complex lengths largely determine the different recombination rates in male and female germ cells

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 107, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 208-215

  Tease, C ^a   Hulten M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN MLH1;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME CHIASM; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; DNA CONTENT; FEMALE; FETUS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GERM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEIOSIS; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOCYTE; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MEIOSIS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OOCYTES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPERMATOCYTES; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

EID: 5644225562     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000080599     Document Type: Article

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