Studying meiosis-specific cohesins in mouse embryonic oocytes

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 957, Issue , 2013, Pages 47-57

  Kim, Ji Hye ^a,b   Ishiguro, Kei Ichiro ^a   Kudo, Nobuaki ^c   Watanabe, Yoshinori ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axial element; Chromosome spread; Cohesin; Embryonic ovary; Fetal oocyte; FISH; Homolog synapsis; Meiosis; Prophase; Synaptonemal complex

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; SYNAPSIS;

EID: 84871890165     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-191-2_3     Document Type: Article

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