Screening for telomeric recombination in wild-type Kluyveromyces lactis

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 442-448

  Natarajan, Shobhana ^a,b   Nickles, Kristy ^a   McEachern, Michael J ^a  

^a Fred C Davison Life Sciences Complex ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative lengthening of telomeres; Break induced replication; Gene conversion; Yeast

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HAPLOIDY; KLUYVEROMYCES; MATING; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SPOROGENESIS; TELOMERE;

BLOTTING, SOUTHWESTERN; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC SCREENING; KLUYVEROMYCES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TELOMERE;

FUNGI; KLUYVEROMYCES; KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS;

EID: 33645970715     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2005.00042.x     Document Type: Article

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