The meiotic recombination hot spot ura4A in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Genetics

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 551-561

  Baur, Michel ^a,b   Hartsuiker, Edgar ^a,c   Lehmann, Elisabeth ^a   Ludin, Katja ^a   Munz, Peter ^a   Kohli, Juerg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b ZLB Behring AG   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME; GENE; GENE MUTATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

ALLELES; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENETIC MARKERS; MEIOSIS; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SPORES, FUNGAL;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 15544383866     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.033647     Document Type: Article

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