Hydra meiosis reveals unexpected conservation of structural synaptonemal complex proteins across metazoans

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 41, 2012, Pages 16588-16593

  Fraune, Johanna ^a   Alsheimer, Manfred ^a   Volff, Jean Nicolas ^b   Busch, Karoline ^a   Fraune, Sebastian ^c   Bosch, Thomas C G ^c   Benavente, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN SYCP1; PROTEIN SYCP3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; HYDRA; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDRA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

EID: 84867350031     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1206875109     Document Type: Article

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