A mouse homolog of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae meiotic recombination DNA transesterase Spo11p

Genomics

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 170-182

  Keeney, Scott ^a   Baudat, Frederic ^a   Angeles, Michael ^a   Zhou, Zhi Hong ^a   Copeland, Neal G ^b   Jenkins, Nancy A ^b   Manova, Katia ^a   Jasin, Maria ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033569601     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1999.5956     Document Type: Article

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