Region-specific meiotic recombination in Schizosaccharomyces pombe: The rec11 gene

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 869-878

  Li, Ywan Feng ^a,b   Numata, Masayuki ^a,c   Wahls, Wayne P ^a,d   Smith, Gerald R ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 3; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0031019943     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.2691632.x     Document Type: Article

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