Meiotic Chromosome Dynamics

Genome Organization and Function in the Cell Nucleus

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 485-533

  Kleckner, Nancy ^a   Zhang, Liangran ^a   Liangran, Beth ^a   Zickler, Denise ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

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DOI: 10.1002/9783527639991.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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