Isolation and characterization of rad51 orthologs from Coprinus cinereus and Lycopersicon esculentum, and phylogenetic analysis of eukaryotic recA homologs

Current Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 144-157

  Stassen, Natalie Yeager ^a   Logsdon Jr , John M ^a,c   Vora, Gaurav J ^a,d   Offenberg, Hildo H ^b   Palmer, Jeffrey D ^a   Zolan, Miriam E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Coprinus cinereus; Gene duplication; Lycopersicon esculentum; Molecular phylogeny; RAD51 homologs; Unequal evolutionary rates

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COPRINUS; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; FUNGAL GENETICS; GAMMA IRRADIATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE ISOLATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECA GENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COPRINUS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, FUNGAL; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; REC A RECOMBINASES; RNA, FUNGAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0031052958     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050189     Document Type: Article

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