Flies Get a Head Start on Meiosis

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Cahoon, Cori K ^a   Hawley, R Scott ^a,b  

^a STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 28S;

ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CYTOKINESIS; DIPTERA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GERMLINE STEM CELL; HAPLOIDY; HETEROCHROMATIN; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

ANIMALS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS;

EID: 84892700597     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004051     Document Type: Article

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