Chromosome dynamics in meiotic prophase I in plants

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 129, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 173-183

  Ronceret, A ^a   Pawlowski, Wojciech P ^b  

^a INSTITUT JEAN PIERRE BOURGIN   (France)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Centromeres; Chromosome dynamics; Chromosome pairing; Chromosomes; Cytoskeleton; Meiosis; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

CELLULASE; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DNA; POLYGALACTURONASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; TELOMERE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WHEAT; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; MICROSCOPY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MOVEMENT; PLANTS; TELOMERE;

EID: 77955297428     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000313656     Document Type: Review

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