Analysis of meiotic recombination in Caenorhabditis elegans

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 557, Issue , 2009, Pages 77-97

  Hillers, Kenneth J ^a   Villeneuve, Anne M ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

bivalent; chiasmata; crossing over; PCR; recombination; snip SNP; univalent

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; IONIZING RADIATION; MEIOSIS; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; MEIOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; OOGENESIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RADIATION, IONIZING; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 70350755679     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-527-5_7     Document Type: Article

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