mre11S - A yeast mutation that blocks double-strand-break processing and permits nonhomologous synapsis in meiosis

Genes and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 2272-2290

  Nairz, Knud ^a,b   Klein, Franz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

DNA double strand breaks; Meiosis; MRE11; Recombination; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Synaptonemal complex

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030885998     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.11.17.2272     Document Type: Article

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