DNA replication origins: From sequence specificity to epigenetics

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 640-645

  Méchali, Marcel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA REPLICATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; EDITORIAL; GENETICS; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REPLICON; YEAST;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA REPLICATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; REPLICATION ORIGIN; REPLICON; YEASTS;

EID: 0035430416     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35084598     Document Type: Review

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