Mouse HFM1/Mer3 Is Required for Crossover Formation and Complete Synapsis of Homologous Chromosomes during Meiosis

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Guiraldelli, Michel F ^a   Eyster, Craig ^a   Wilkerson, Joseph L ^a,b   Dresser, Michael E ^a,b   Pezza, Roberto J ^a,b  

^a OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HFM1 PROTEIN; MER3 PROTEIN; MSH4 PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAKINESIS; EMBRYO; GENE DELETION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HFM1 GENE; IN VIVO STUDY; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROPHASE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPERMATOCYTE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA HELICASES; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPERMATOCYTES;

MAMMALIA; SYNAPSIS;

EID: 84875994355     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003383     Document Type: Article

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