Identification and characterization of an SPO11 homolog in the mouse

Chromosoma

Volumn 109, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 133-138

  Metzler Guillemain, Catherine ^a   De Massy, Bernard ^b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME IDENTIFICATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; ARCHAEA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; MELANOGASTER; MUS MUSCULUS; MUSCULUS; RODENTIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SULFOLOBUS SHIBATAE;

EID: 0033916864     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004120050421     Document Type: Article

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