CYS3, a hotspot of meiotic recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Effects of heterozygosity and mismatch repair functions on gene conversion and recombination intermediates

Genetics

Volumn 151, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1245-1259

  Vedel, Michèle ^a   Nicolas, Alain ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC MARKERS; HETEROZYGOTE; MEIOSIS; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032919063     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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