Sister chromosome pairing maintains heterozygosity in parthenogenetic lizards

Nature

Volumn 464, Issue 7286, 2010, Pages 283-286

  Lutes, Aracely A ^a,b   Neaves, William B ^a,c   Baumann, Diana P ^a   Wiegraebe, Winfried ^a   Baumann, Peter ^a,b,d  

^a STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOENZYME; ORIGIN RECOGNITION COMPLEX;

ALLOZYME; CHROMOSOME; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HYBRIDIZATION; LIZARD; PARTHENOGENESIS;

ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DIPLOIDY; EGG; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GAMETE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; LIZARD; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARTHENOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; LIZARDS; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OOCYTES; TELOMERE;

ASPIDOSCELIS; SQUAMATA; TEIIDAE;

EID: 77949492236     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08818     Document Type: Article

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