Regulating the construction and demolition of the synaptonemal complex

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 369-377

  Cahoon, Cori K ^a   Hawley, R Scott ^a,b  

^a STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPHASE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MUS MUSCULUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SUMOYLATION; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN PROCESSING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

EID: 84966333767     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.3208     Document Type: Review

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