An asymmetric chromosome pair undergoes synaptic adjustment and crossover redistribution during Caenorhabditis elegans meiosis: Implications for sex chromosome evolution

Genetics

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 685-699

  Henzel, Jonathan V ^a,d   Nabeshima, Kentaro ^b   Schvarzstein, Mara ^c   Turner, B Elizabeth ^a   Villeneuve, Anne M ^c   Hillers, Kenneth J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HERMAPHRODITISM; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MALE; MEIOSIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEX CHROMOSOMES;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; SYNAPSIS;

EID: 79953227400     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.110.124958     Document Type: Article

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