Molecular cartography: Mapping the landscape of meiotic recombination

PLoS Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2774-2777

  Pan, Jing ^a   Keeney, Scott ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; RAD50 PROTEIN; RAD52 PROTEIN;

DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE MAPPING; GENOME; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; GENOME; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; RAD52 DNA REPAIR AND RECOMBINATION PROTEIN; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 38549175700     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050333     Document Type: Review

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