Mechanism and control of meiotic recombination initiation

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 52, Issue , 2001, Pages 1-53

  Keeney, Scott ^a,b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Weill Cornell Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; ESTERASE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SPO11 PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME; EVOLUTION; FUNGAL GENE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ESTERASES; EVOLUTION; GENES, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0035223878     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0070-2153(01)52008-6     Document Type: Review

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