MuDR transposase increases the frequency of meiotic crossovers in the vicinity of a Mu insertion in the maize a1 gene

Genetics

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 917-929

  Yandeau Nelson, Marna D ^a   Zhou, Qing ^a,b   Yao, Hong ^a,c   Xu, Xiaojie ^a,d   Nikolau, Basil J ^a   Schnable, Patrick S ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BASF Plant Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSPOSASE;

A1 GENE; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSSING OVER; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HETEROZYGOTE; MAIZE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, PLANT; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, PLANT; HETEROZYGOTE; MEIOSIS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSPOSASES; ZEA MAYS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 15544390265     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.035089     Document Type: Article

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