Repairing a double-strand chromosome break by homologous recombination: Revisiting Robin Holliday's model

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 359, Issue 1441, 2004, Pages 79-86

  Haber, James E ^a   Ira, Gregorz ^a   Malkova, Anna ^a   Sugawara, Neal ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Homologous recombination; Robin Holliday, DNA repair; Yeast mating type switching

Indexed keywords

DNA;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 1642443161     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1367     Document Type: Conference Paper

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