Schizosaccharomyces pombe switches mating type by the synthesis-dependent strand-annealing mechanism

Genetics

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 255-265

  Yamada Inagawa, Tomoko ^a   Klar, Amar J S ^b   Dalgaard, Jacob Z ^a  

^a MARIE CURIE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; MAT1 GENE; MAT2 GENE; MAT3 GENE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENES, SWITCH; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SPORES, FUNGAL;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 35048851100     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.076315     Document Type: Article

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