The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Recombination Enhancer Biases Recombination during Interchromosomal Mating-Type Switching but Not in Interchromosomal Homologous Recombination

Genetics

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1187-1197

  Houston, Peter ^a   Simon, Peter J ^a,b   Broach, James R ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE PHARMA L P   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME ARM; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; ENHANCER REGION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOIDY; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE CONVERSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, SWITCH; HAPLOIDY; MODELS, GENETIC; PEPTIDES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 1942421814     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.166.3.1187     Document Type: Article

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