Direct visualization reveals kinetics of meiotic chromosome synapsis

Cell Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1639-1645

  Rog, Ofer ^a,b   Dernburg, Abby F ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ELONGATION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HERMAPHRODITE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TIME LAPSE IMAGING;

SYNAPSIS;

EID: 84925149474     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.02.032     Document Type: Article

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