Unraveling a region-specific hyper-recombination phenomenon: Genetic control and modalities of terminal recombination in Escherichia coli

Genetics

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 979-989

  Corre, Jacqueline ^b   Cornet, François ^a,b   Patte, Josette ^b   Louarn, Jean Michel ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UPS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CROSSING OVER; DNA DEGRADATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SISTER CHROMATID;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030725242     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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