Dramatic changes in the ratio of homologous recombination to nonhomologous dma-end joining in oocytes and early embryos of xenopus laevis

Biological Chemistry Hoppe-Seyler

Volumn 377, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 239-250

  Hagmann, Michael ^a   Adlkofer, Katrin ^a,d   Pfeiffer, Petra ^a,b   Bruggmann, Rémy ^a   Georgiev, Oleg ^a   Rungger, Duri ^c   Schaffner, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

DNA end joining; End to end joining; Fertilized egg; Homologous recombination; Illegitimate recombination; Oocyte; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DNA; DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; EMBRYO; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; DNA; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DRUG RESISTANCE; FERTILIZATION; KANAMYCIN; MICROINJECTIONS; OOCYTES; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TETRACYCLINE; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0029940720     PISSN: 01773593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bchm3.1996.377.4.239     Document Type: Article

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