Recombination and recombination-dependent DNA replication in bacteriophage T4

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue , 1998, Pages 379-413

  Mosig, Gisela ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA packaging; DNA repair; DNA protein interaction; Evolution; Gene regulation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE T4; DNA REPLICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION; GENES, BACTERIAL; HETEROZYGOTE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032426554     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.32.1.379     Document Type: Review

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