Gene conversion alone accounts for more than 90% of recombination events at the am locus of Neurospora crassa

Genetics

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 129-136

  Bowring, Frederick J ^a   Catcheside, David E A ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME CHIASM; CROSSING OVER; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; MARKER GENE; MEIOSIS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COSMIDS; CROSSES, GENETIC; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

EID: 0029931880     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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