Meiotic recombination modulates the structure and dynamics of the synaptonemal complex during C. elegans meiosis

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Pattabiraman, Divya ^a   Roelens, Baptiste ^a   Woglar, Alexander ^a   Villeneuve, Anne M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLO LIKE KINASE 2; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; COSA-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; POLO-LIKE KINASE 2, C ELEGANS; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PROPHASE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REPRODUCTION; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; ANIMAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CROSSING OVER; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; KINETICS; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; METABOLISM; MUTATION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; KINETICS; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUTATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

EID: 85016598445     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006670     Document Type: Article

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