A discrete class of intergenic DNA dictates meiotic DNA break hotspots in fission yeast

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1496-1507

  Cromie, Gareth A ^a   Hyppa, Randy W ^a   Cam, Hugh P ^b   Farah, Joseph A ^a   Grewal, Shiv I S ^b   Smith, Gerald R ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPACER DNA; REC12 PROTEIN, S POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENOME; NONHUMAN; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; YEAST; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENETICS; MEIOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

SACCHAROMYCETALES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA, INTERGENIC; MEIOSIS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

EID: 34548460397     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030141     Document Type: Article

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