Five RecA-like Proteins of Schizosaccharomyces pombe Are Involved in Meiotic Recombination

Genetics

Volumn 165, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1031-1043

  Grishchuk, A L ^a   Kohli, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DMC1 PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN; RECA LIKE PROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN; RHP55 PROTEIN; RHP57 PROTEIN; RLP1 PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CROSSING OVER; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTYPE; MEIOSIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

FUNGAL PROTEINS; MEIOSIS; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0347622771     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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