Control of meiotic recombination initiation: A role for the environment?

Current Genetics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 129-139

  Koren, Amnon ^a   Ben Aroya, Shay ^a   Kupiec, Martin ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CHROMATIN; ENVIRONMENT; MEIOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; YEASTS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0036972347     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-002-0340-9     Document Type: Review

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