Positioning of Chromosomes in Human Spermatozoa Is Determined by Ordered Centromere Arrangement

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Mudrak, Olga S ^a,b   Nazarov, Igor B ^a,b   Jones, Estella L ^b   Zalensky, Andrei O ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME POSITIONING; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; FERTILIZATION; GENOME; HAPLOIDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MEIOSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON;

CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES; HUMANS; MALE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84871659779     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052944     Document Type: Article

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