Collisions between yeast chromosomal loci in vivo are governed by three layers of organization

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 1871-1883

  Burgess, Sean M ^a,b   Kleckner, Nancy ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome; DNA repair; Homolog pairing; Nucleus; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Site specific recombination

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DIPLOIDY; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YEAST;

FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033565525     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.14.1871     Document Type: Article

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