Frequent meiotic recombination between the ends of truncated chromosome fragments of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Genetics

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1583-1590

  Arbel, Tamar ^a   Shemesh, Ronen ^a   Simchen, Giora ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MARKER; CHROMOSOME SIZE; DIPLOIDY; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOSS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPOROGENESIS;

CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; GENETIC MARKERS; HAPLOIDY; MEIOSIS; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032736427     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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