Alternative meiotic chromatid segregation in the holocentric plant Luzula elegans

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Heckmann, Stefan ^a,b   Jankowska, Maja ^a   Schubert, Veit ^a   Kumke, Katrin ^a   Ma, Wei ^a   Houben, Andreas ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SATELLITE DNA;

CHROMOSOME; DNA; MONOCOTYLEDON;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; HAPLOIDY; HISTONE PHOSPHORYLATION; LUZULA ELEGANS; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PROPHASE; SISTER CHROMATID; TELOPHASE; ANGIOSPERM; CHROMATID; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

EUKARYOTA; LUZULA ELEGANS;

ANGIOSPERMS; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIDS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 84920559546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5979     Document Type: Article

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