Stabilization of microsatellite sequences by variant repeats in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Genetics

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 491-498

  Petes, Thomas D ^a   Greenwell, Patricia W ^a   Dominska, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; BASE PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SATELLITE ASSOCIATION; DNA REPAIR; GENETIC STABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030908252     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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