The Tetrahymena meiotic chromosome bouquet is organized by centromeres and promotes interhomolog recombination

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 125, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 5873-5880

  Loidl, Josef ^a   Lukaszewicz, Agnieszka ^a   Howard Till, Rachel A ^a   Koestler, Tina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MAX F PERUTZ LABORATORIES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bouquet; Centromere; Chromosome pairing; Meiosis; Recombination

Indexed keywords

ATR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME BOUQUET; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; DROSOPHILA; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; KARYOTYPE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES; MEIOSIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 84874754884     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: 14779137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.112664     Document Type: Article

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