Mitotic recombination in yeast: Elements controlling its incidence

Yeast

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 731-754

  Aguilera, Andrés ^a   Chávez, Sebastián ^a   Malagón, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chromatin structure; DNA damage; DNA repair; Double strand breaks; Homologous recombination; Hyper recombination; Replication defects; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Transcription

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SOMATIC CROSSING OVER; YEAST;

CHROMATIN; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MITOSIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0343619492     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0061(20000615)16:8<731::AID-YEA586>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Review

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