Meiotic double-strand breaks in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Current Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 33-38

  Zenvirth, Drora ^a   Simchen, Giora ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

DNA double strand breaks; DNA repair; Fission yeast; Meiosis

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RECA GENE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0033940227     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940000126     Document Type: Article

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