Crossing over during Caenorhabditis elegans meiosis requires a conserved MutS-based pathway that is partially dispensable in budding yeast

Genetics

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1271-1283

  Zalevsky, Jonathan ^a,d   MacQueen, Amy J ^a   Duffy, Joseph B ^b,e   Kemphues, Kenneth J ^b   Villeneuve, Anne M ^a,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE PRODUCT;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; GENE MUTATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MEIOSIS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0032755748     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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