Beyond homing: Competition between intron endonucleases confers a selective advantage on flanking genetic markers

Cell

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 211-221

  Goodrich Blair, Heidi ^a,b   Shub, David A ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENZYME CONFORMATION; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC MARKER; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

EID: 0030054233     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80976-9     Document Type: Article

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