Context dependence of meiotic recombination hotspots in yeast: The relationship between recombination activity of a reporter construct and base composition

Genetics

Volumn 162, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 2049-2052

  Petes, Thomas D ^a   Merker, Jason D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE;

ARTICLE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; YEAST;

BASE COMPOSITION; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RECOMBINANT; GENES, REPORTER; MEIOSIS; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

INSERTION SEQUENCES; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0036959057     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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