A single unpaired and transcriptionally silenced X chromosome locally precludes checkpoint signaling in the Caenorhabditis elegans germ line

Genetics

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 613-628

  Jaramillo Lambert, Aimee ^a   Engebrecht, JoAnne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERMATOGENESIS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA REPAIR; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GERM CELLS; MALE; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; SYNAPSIS;

EID: 77950625951     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.109.110338     Document Type: Article

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