Isolation of COM1, a new gene required to complete meiotic double- strand break-induced recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Genetics

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 781-795

  Prinz, Susanne ^a   Amon, Angelika ^b   Klein, Franz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DELETION MUTANT; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; YEAST;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GAMMA RAYS; GENES, FUNGAL; MEIOSIS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PROPHASE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SPORES, FUNGAL;

FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030811331     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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