A high incidence of meiotic silencing of unsynapsed chromatin is not associated with substantial pachytene loss in heterozygous male mice carrying multiple simple Robertsonian translocations

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Manterola, Marcia ^a,b   Page, Jesús ^b   Vasco, Chiara ^c   Berríos, Soledad ^a   Parra, María Teresa ^b   Viera, Alberto ^b   Rufas, Julio S ^b   Zuccotti, Maurizio ^d   Garagna, Silvia ^c   Fernández Donoso, Raúl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATR PROTEIN; H2 ANTIGEN; HISTONE H2AX; SUMO 1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; FERTILITY; GAMETE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE LOSS; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC SILENCING OF UNSYNAPSED CHROMATIN; METAPHASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PROPHASE; ROBERTSONIAN CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; SPERMATOCYTE; UBIQUITINATION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GENE TRANSLOCATION; METABOLISM;

MAMMALIA; MUS; ROBERTSONIA; SYNAPSIS;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; PACHYTENE STAGE; SPERMATOCYTES; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 70149087592     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000625     Document Type: Article

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