Chromosome size, morphology, and gene density determine bivalent positioning in metaphase i human spermatocytes

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Vergés, Laia ^a   Blanco, Joan ^a   Valero, Oliver ^a   Vidal, Francesca ^a   Sarrate, Zaida ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bivalent; chromosome territories; meiosis; metaphase I; spermatocytes

Indexed keywords

ACROCENTRIC CHROMOSOME; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CHROMOSOME IDENTIFICATION; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; METAPHASE; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS BIOPSY; UNIVERSITY;

BIVALENT; CHROMOSOME TERRITORIES; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE I; SPERMATOCYTES;

CELL SIZE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURES; CHROMOSOMES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; METAPHASE; SPERMATOCYTES;

EID: 84894485313     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2013.11.013     Document Type: Article

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