Molecular Mechanisms of Homologous Chromosome Pairing and Segregation in Plants

Journal of Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 117-123

  Zhang, Jing ^a,b   Zhang, Bing ^a,b   Su, Handong ^a,b   Birchler, James A ^c   Han, Fangpu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Homologous chromosome pairing; Meiosis; Orientation and segregation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PROGENY; REVIEW; SISTER CHROMATID; TELOMERE;

EUKARYOTA; SYNAPSIS;

HOMOLOGOUS CHROMOSOME PAIRING; MEIOSIS; ORIENTATION AND SEGREGATION;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULES; PLANTS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TELOMERE;

EID: 84896319330     PISSN: 16738527     EISSN: 18735533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jgg.2013.12.003     Document Type: Review

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