Natural meiotic recombination hot spots in the schizosaccharomyces pombe genome successfully predicted from the simple sequence motif M26

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 9054-9062

  Steiner, Walter W ^a,b   Smith, Gerald R ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b NIAGARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ACCURACY; ADE6 M26 GENE; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CDS1 GENE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EUKARYOTE; FUNGAL GENE; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; M26 GENE; MEIOSIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; WILD TYPE;

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; MEIOSIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 26444507920     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.25.20.9054-9062.2005     Document Type: Article

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