Meiotic contraction of CAG repeats in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 159-167

  Arai, Naoto ^a   Akiyama, Ryoko ^a   Niimi, Naoko ^a   Nakatsubo, Hiroaki ^a   Inoue, Tadashi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; GAMETOGENESIS; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPOROGENESIS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; YEAST;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPORES, FUNGAL; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0033179143     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.74.159     Document Type: Article

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