Interplay between modifications of chromatin and meiotic recombination hotspots

Biology of the Cell

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 51-69

  Brachet, Elsa ^a,b   Sommermeyer, Vérane ^a,b   Borde, Valérie ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Histones; Meiosis; Mitosis; Recombination

Indexed keywords

COHESIN; CONDENSIN; RIBOSOME DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BUDDING; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME; DIPLOIDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; TELOMERE; TRANSPOSON;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENOME, HUMAN; HISTONES; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES;

EID: 84861398964     PISSN: 02484900     EISSN: 1768322X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/boc.201100113     Document Type: Review

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