From meiosis to postmeiotic events: Alignment and recognition of homologous chromosomes in meiosis

FEBS Journal

Volumn 277, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 565-570

  Ding, Da Qiao ^b   Haraguchi, Tokuko ^a,b   Hiraoka, Yasushi ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bouquet arrangement; Double strand break; Homologous chromosome pairing; KASH domain protein; Meiosis; Recombination; SUN domain protein; Synaptonemal complex; Telomere; Transcription

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; KMS1 PROTEIN; SAD1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; MEIOSIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 75149120618     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.07501.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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