The msh2 gene of Schizosaccharomyces pombe is involved in mismatch repair, mating-type switching, and meiotic chromosome organization

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 241-250

  Rudolph, Claudia ^a   Kunz, Christophe ^a   Parisi, Sandro ^a   Lehmann, Elisabeth ^a   Hartsuiker, Edgar ^a   Fartmann, Berthold ^b   Kramer, Wilfried K ^b   Kohli, JÜRG ^a   Fleck, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0032909165     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.1.241     Document Type: Article

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