Fission Yeast Mus81·Eme1 Holliday Junction Resolvase Is Required for Meiotic Crossing over but Not for Gene Conversion

Genetics

Volumn 165, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 2289-2293

  Smith, Gerald R ^a   Boddy, Michael N ^b   Shanahan, Paul ^b   Russell, Paul ^b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESOLVASE;

ARTICLE; CROSSING OVER; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE CONVERSION; GENE FREQUENCY; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA DAMAGE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDONUCLEASES; GENE CONVERSION; MEIOSIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

FUNGI; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0141801773     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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