Poorly repaired mismatches in heteroduplex DNA are hyper-recombinagenic in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Genetics

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 407-416

  Manivasakam, P ^a,b   Rosenberg, Susan M ^a   Hastings, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; GENE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA REPAIR; DNA, FUNGAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030068315     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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