Evidence That Masking of Synapsis Imperfections Counterbalances Quality Control to Promote Efficient Meiosis

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Mlynarczyk Evans, Susanna ^a   Roelens, Baptiste ^a   Villeneuve, Anne M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PROPHASE; X CHROMOSOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; KARYOTYPE; MEIOSIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84892770598     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003963     Document Type: Article

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