Altered distribution of MLH1 foci is associated with changes in cohesins and chromosome axis compaction in an asynaptic mutant of tomato

Chromosoma

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 291-305

  Qiao, Huanyu ^a,c   Offenberg, Hildo H ^b   Anderson, Lorinda K ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b Johannes Poststraat 49 ^*  (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHESIN; MRE11 PROTEIN; PROTEIN MLH1; RAD50 PROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; AS1 GENE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GAMETE; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; MEIOSIS; MUTATOR GENE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TOMATO; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; PLANT PROTEINS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

EUKARYOTA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SYNAPSIS;

EID: 84864870273     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: 14320886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-012-0363-z     Document Type: Article

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