Fission yeast switches mating type by a replication-recombination coupled process

EMBO Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1389-1396

  Arcangioli, Benoit ^a   de Lahondès, Raynald ^a  

^a Institut Pasteur   (France)

Author keywords

Imprinting; Recombination; Replication; Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE LOCUS; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MATING TYPE; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; YEAST;

DNA REPLICATION; DNA, FUNGAL; G2 PHASE; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENES, SWITCH; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; KINETICS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; S PHASE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0034654537     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.6.1389     Document Type: Article

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