Yeast telomeres exert a position effect on recombination between internal tracts of yeast telomeric DNA

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 3044-3058

  Stavenhagen, Jeffrey B ^a   Zakian, Virginia A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Position effect; Recombination; Telomere replication; Telomeres; Yeast

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE; YEAST;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 3A;

EID: 0032191398     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.19.3044     Document Type: Article

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