Chromosome Segregation: Human Female Meiosis Breaks All the Rules

Current Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2015, Pages R654-R656

  Zanders, Sarah E ^a   Malik, Harmit S ^a,b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; FEMALE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN;

CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84938584324     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.054     Document Type: Short Survey

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