A test of the CoHR motif associated with meiotic double-strand breaks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

EMBO Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 41-46

  Haring, Stuart J ^a   Lautner, Lucas J ^a   Comeron, Josep M ^a   Malone, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 1242298536     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400050     Document Type: Article

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