A natural meiotic DNA break site in Schizosaccharomyces pombe is a hotspot of gene conversion, highly associated with crossing over

Genetics

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 595-605

  Cromie, Gareth A ^a   Rubio, Claudia A ^a,b   Hyppa, Randy W ^a   Smith, Gerald R ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

ADE6 GENE; ADE7 GENE; ARTICLE; CROSSING OVER; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MBS1 GENE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; URA1 GENE;

CHROMATIDS; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA, FUNGAL; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC MARKERS; MEIOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 15544389842     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.037176     Document Type: Article

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