Relationship between nuclease-hypersensitive sites and meiotic recombination hot spot activity at the HIS4 locus of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 2037-2043

  Fan, Qing Qing ^a   Petes, Thomas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; NUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0029862606     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.5.2037     Document Type: Article

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