Gene conversion tracts in Saccharomyces cerevisiae can be extremely short and highly directional

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1164-1173

  Palmer, Sean ^a   Schildkraut, Ezra ^a   Lazarin, Raquel ^a   Nguyen, Jimmy ^a   Nickoloff, Jac A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; FUNGAL DNA; HETERODUPLEX; NUCLEASE;

ALLELE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MISMATCH REPAIR; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YEAST;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0037440659     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg219     Document Type: Review

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