Meiotic recombination in C. elegans initiates by a conserved mechanism and is dispensable for homologous chromosome synapsis

Cell

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 387-398

  Dernburg, Abby F ^a   McDonald, Kent ^b   Moulder, Gary ^c   Barstead, Robert ^c   Dresser, Michael ^c   Villeneuve, Anne M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DELETION MUTANT; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA; METAZOA; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0032493878     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81481-6     Document Type: Article

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