Interplay between synaptonemal complex, homologous recombination, and centromeres during mammalian meiosis

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Qiao, Huanyu ^a   Chen, Jefferson K ^a   Reynolds, April ^a   Höög, Christer ^b   Paddy, Michael ^c   Hunter, Neil ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOME CHIASM; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROPHASE; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; SPERMATOCYTE; STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION MICROSCOPY; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CHROMOSOME; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

DIPLONEMA; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SYNAPSIS;

CATION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION PROTEIN SPO11; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; SLC39A3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SYCP1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SPERMATOCYTES; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

EID: 84864074135     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002790     Document Type: Article

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