Numerical constraints and feedback control of double-strand breaks in mouse meiosis

Genes and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 873-886

  Kauppi, Liisa ^a,b   Barchi, Marco ^a,c   Lange, Julian ^a   Baudat, Frédéric ^a,d   Jasin, Maria ^a   Keeney, Scott ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

Author keywords

DNA double strand break; Homologous pairing; Meiosis; Recombination; Spermatogenesis; Spo11; Synaptonemal complex

Indexed keywords

SPO11 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CATALYST; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; KARYOTYPE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERMATOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

MAMMALIA; MUS; NEMATODA; SYNAPSIS;

EID: 84876893983     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.213652.113     Document Type: Article

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