Protein SYCP2 is an ancient component of the metazoan synaptonemal complex

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 299-305

  Fraune, Johanna ^a   Alsheimer, Manfred ^a   Redolfi, Josef ^a   Brochier Armanet, Céline ^b   Benavente, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Cnidaria; Evolution; Mammalia; Meiosis; Synaptonemal complex

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; RNA; SYCP2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDRA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MALE; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TESTIS;

CNIDARIA; MAMMALIA; METAZOA; SYNAPSIS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HYDRA; MALE; MAMMALS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TESTIS;

EID: 84928584261     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: 1424859X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000381080     Document Type: Article

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