Differing requirements for RAD51 and DMC1 in meiotic pairing of centromeres and chromosome arms in Arabidopsis thaliana

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  da Ines, Olivier ^a   Abe, Kiyomi ^a,b   Goubely, Chantal ^a   Gallego, Maria Eugenia ^a   White, Charles I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN DMC1; RAD51 PROTEIN; RAD51C PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; XRCC3 PROTEIN; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; AT5G57450 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ATDMC1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ATRAD51 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME ARM; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENETICS; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EUCHROMATIN; GENETICS; MEIOSIS; PLANT INFERTILITY;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; SYNAPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EUCHROMATIN; HETEROCHROMATIN; MEIOSIS; MUTANT PROTEINS; PLANT INFERTILITY; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84860598458     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002636     Document Type: Article

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