A physical assay for detection of early meiotic recombination intermediates in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 258, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 512-520

  Bascom Slack, C A ^a,b   Dawson, D ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Double strand breaks; Homologous recombination; Recombination intermediate; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; DNA RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

DNA, FUNGAL; MEIOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CERVISIAE;

EID: 0031871840     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050762     Document Type: Article

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