Meiosis: Making a break for it

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 744-751

  Yanowitz, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; SYNAPSIS;

EID: 78649629549     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2010.08.016     Document Type: Review

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