Couples, pairs, and clusters: Mechanisms and implications of centromere associations in meiosis

Chromosoma

Volumn 123, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 43-55

  Obeso, David ^a,b,c   Pezza, Roberto J ^a,b   Dawson, Dean ^a,b  

^a OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DROSOPHILA; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

ANIMALS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; PLANTS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

EID: 84897500203     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: 14320886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-013-0439-4     Document Type: Review

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