Meiotic Silencing in Mammals

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 49, Issue , 2015, Pages 395-412

  Turner, James M A ^a  

^a THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Meiosis; Meiotic silencing; MSCI; Prophase I checkpoint; X chromosome

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 2; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HISTONE H2A; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA DAMAGE; GENE SILENCING; GERM LINE; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HISTONE UBIQUITINATION; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; MALE; MAMMALS; MEIOSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX CHROMOSOMES; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84948769282     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-112414-055145     Document Type: Article

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