Inter-homolog crossing-over and synapsis in arabidopsis meiosis are dependent on the chromosome axis protein atasy3

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Ferdous, Maheen ^a   Higgins, James D ^a   Osman, Kim ^a   Lambing, Christophe ^a   Roitinger, Elisabeth ^b   Mechtler, Karl ^b,c   Armstrong, Susan J ^a   Perry, Ruth ^a   Pradillo, Mónica ^d   Cuñado, Nieves ^d   Franklin, F Chris H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; PROTEIN ATASY3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ASY1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ASY3 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HOP1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; RED1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BRASSICA OLERACEA; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CROSSING OVER; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; WILD TYPE; BRASSICA; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MUTATION; PLANT CHROMOSOME;

ARABIDOPSIS; BRASSICA OLERACEA; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SYNAPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BRASSICA; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MEIOSIS; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

EID: 84859179125     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002507     Document Type: Article

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