Maize AMEIOTIC1 is essential for multiple early meiotic processes and likely required for the initiation of meiosis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3603-3608

  Pawlowski, Wojciech P ^a   Wang, Chung Ju Rachel ^b   Golubovskaya, Inna N ^b,c   Szymaniak, Jessica M ^a   Shi, Liang ^d   Hamant, Olivier ^b,f   Zhu, Tong ^d   Harper, Lisa ^b   Sheridan, William F ^e   Cande, W Zacheus ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c N I VAVILOV ALL RUSSIAN INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES   (Russian Federation)

^d SYNGENTA BIOTECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Chromosomes; Genetics; Plant development; Recombination

Indexed keywords

AM1 PLANT GENE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DMC1 PLANT GENE; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MAIZE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; TELOMERE;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOMES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MEIOSIS; MIOTICS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; TELOMERE; ZEA MAYS;

FUNGI; MAMMALIA; SYNAPSIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 62549087063     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0810115106     Document Type: Article

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