Roles for Caenorhabditis elegans rad-51 in meiosis and in resistance to ionizing radiation during development

Genetics

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 471-479

  Rinaldo, Cinzia ^a   Bazzicalupo, Paolo ^a   Ederle, Sara ^b   Hilliard, Massimo ^a   La Volpe, Adriana ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DEATH; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA DAMAGE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILITY; GENE; GENE CED3; GENE MRE11; GENE MUTATION; GENE RAD51; GENE SILENCING; GENE SPO11; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IONIZING RADIATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GAMMA RAYS; MEIOSIS; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RNA, MESSENGER;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0036185784     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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