Organization of centromere regions of chromosomes in the lampbrush phase

Tsitologiya

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 515-533

  Krasikova, A V ^a   Gaginskaya, E R ^a  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Centromere; Centromere protein bodies; Chromosomes; Genome architecture; Heterochromatin; Lampbrush; Non coding RNA; Oocyte; Satellite DNA

Indexed keywords

SATELLITE DNA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; BIRD; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROMERE; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MEIOSIS; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROMERE; DNA, SATELLITE; MEIOSIS; OOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77958115373     PISSN: 00413771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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