Genetic control of recombination partner preference in yeast meiosis: Isolation and characterization of mutants elevated for meiotic unequal sister-chromatid recombination

Genetics

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 621-641

  Thompson, Dawn A ^a,b   Stahl, Franklin W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; EPISTASIS; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC REGULATION; LETHAL MUTANT; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; SISTER CHROMATID; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; SPOROGENESIS;

CHROMATIDS; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; MEIOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032820031     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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