The Drosophila spn-D gene encodes a RAD51C-like protein that is required exclusively during meiosis

Genetics

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 197-204

  Abdu, Uri ^a   González Reyes, Acaimo ^b   Ghabrial, Amin ^c   Schüpbach, Trudi ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE PARASITOLOGÍA Y BIOMEDICINA LÓPEZ NEYRA   (Spain)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENOMIC DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN; RAD51C PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DROSOPHILA; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOTYPE; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL GENETICS; SPN B GENE; SPN D GENE;

ANIMALS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EGG PROTEINS; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0141566666     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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