Meiosis and its deviations in polyploid plants

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 140, Issue 2-4, 2013, Pages 171-184

  Grandont, L ^a   Jenczewski, E ^a   Lloyd, A ^a  

^a INSTITUT JEAN PIERRE BOURGIN   (France)

Author keywords

Angiosperms; Chromosome segregation; Meiosis; Polyploidy; Recombination; Synaptonemal complex

Indexed keywords

ANAPHASE; ANGIOSPERM; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOGENETICS; DIPLOIDY; DNA REPLICATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC REGULATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; POLYPLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; RAPESEED; TELOPHASE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION; PLANT CHROMOSOME; SISTER CHROMATID; WHEAT;

CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DIPLOIDY; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; MEIOSIS; POLYPLOIDY; TRITICUM;

ANIMALIA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 84881121035     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: 1424859X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000351730     Document Type: Article

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