Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutants defective in plasmid-chromosome recombination

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 252, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 530-538

  Elias Arnanz, Montserrat ^a   Firmenich, Antoine A ^a   Berg, Paul ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Double strand break repair; rad alleles; Recombination assay

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE INDUCTION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOMES; DNA REPAIR; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0029857260     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050260     Document Type: Article

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