Meiotic errors activate checkpoints that improve gamete quality without triggering apoptosis in male germ cells

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 2078-2089

  Jaramillo Lambert, Aimee ^a   Harigaya, Yuriko ^b   Vitt, Jeffrey ^a   Villeneuve, Anne ^b   Engebrecht, Joanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CYTOLOGY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; FEMALE; GENETICS; GERM CELL; HERMAPHRODITIC SPECIES; HUMAN; MALE; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; HERMAPHRODITIC ORGANISMS; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; METAZOA;

EID: 78650084827     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.10.008     Document Type: Article

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