Chromosome size differences may affect meiosis and genome size

Science

Volumn 329, Issue 5989, 2010, Pages 293-

  Wang, John ^a   Chen, Pei Jiun ^a,c   Wang, George J ^b   Keller, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TopoGenomics Incorporated   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

CHROMOSOME; GENOME; NEMATODE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEX DETERMINATION; SIZE;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME SIZE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DELETION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENOME SIZE; HERMAPHRODITISM; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; TRANSGENE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES; FEMALE; GENOME; HERMAPHRODITISM; INDEL MUTATION; MALE; MEIOSIS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; TRANSGENES; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 77954786788     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1190130     Document Type: Article

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8. We thank W. Herr, P. Gö'nczy, A. W. Murray, and A. M. Villeneuve for comments on the manuscnpt; S. K. Kim and R. E. Ellis for discussions; W. Herr, in whose laboratory the experiments were performed; the Caenorhabdib's Genetics Center, funded by the NIH National Center for Research Resources, for strains; the University of Lausanne Cellular Imaging Facility; and the Vital-IT Center for high-performance computing. Supported by grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation to LK. and W. Herr. LK. thanks S. Leiblerfor hosting him during his sabbatical at Rockefeller University.