Synaptonemal Complex Components Promote Centromere Pairing in Pre-meiotic Germ Cells

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Christophorou, Nicolas ^a,b   Rubin, Thomas ^a,b   Huynh, Jean René ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^b INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAUGHTER CELL; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; STEM CELL; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIDS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GERM CELLS; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

EID: 84892713260     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004012     Document Type: Article

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