Rules of donor preference in saccharomyces mating-type gene switching revealed by a competition assay involving two types of recombination

Genetics

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 399-407

  Wu, Xiaohua ^a,b   Wu, Cherry ^a   Haber, James E ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; GENES, SWITCH; PEPTIDES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030800629     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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