Failure of homologous synapsis and sex-specific reproduction problems

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue JUN, 2012, Pages

  Kurahashi, Hiroki ^a   Kogo, Hiroshi ^a   Tsutsumi, Makiko ^a   Inagaki, Hidehito ^a   Ohye, Tamae ^a  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hormad1; Meiotic sex chromosome silencing; Meiotic silencing of unsynapsed chromosomes; Pachytene checkpoint; Sex body; Synapsis; Translocation

Indexed keywords

SYNAPSIS;

EID: 84873703852     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2012.00112     Document Type: Article

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