A Surveillance System Ensures Crossover Formation in C. elegans

Current Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 21, 2016, Pages 2873-2884

  Machovina, Tyler S ^a   Mainpal, Rana ^a   Daryabeigi, Anahita ^b   McGovern, Olivia ^a   Paouneskou, Dimitra ^b   Labella, Sara ^c   Zetka, Monique ^c   Jantsch, Verena ^b   Yanowitz, Judith L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

C. elegans; checkpoint; cosa 1; germline; him 5; meiosis; plk 2; SUN 1; synapsis; synaptonemal complex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CROSSING OVER; GENETICS; MEIOSIS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; MEIOSIS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

EID: 84992045355     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.09.007     Document Type: Article

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