Meiotic development in Caenorhabditis elegans

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 757, Issue , 2013, Pages 133-170

  Lui, Doris Y ^a   Colaiácovo, Monica P ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Cohesion; Germline; Meiosis; Pairing; Recombination; Synapsis

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; POLO LIKE KINASE 2; PROTEIN HTP 1; PROTEIN HTP 2; PROTEIN HTP 3; PROTEIN KASH; PROTEIN REC 8; PROTEIN SMC 1; PROTEIN SMC 3; PROTEIN SUN 1; PROTEIN ZIM 1; PROTEIN ZIM 2; PROTEIN ZIM 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL MATURATION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GERM LINE; HERMAPHRODITISM; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SISTER CHROMATID; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84867492975     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4015-4_6     Document Type: Article

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