Application of advanced fluorescence microscopy to the structure of meiotic chromosomes

Biophysical Reviews

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 313-322

  Carlton, Peter M ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3D SIM; Meiosis; Superresolution microscopy; Synaptonemal complex

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CYTOLOGY; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REVIEW; SIMULATION; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

EID: 84893008887     PISSN: 18672450     EISSN: 18672469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12551-013-0116-0     Document Type: Review

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