Selective isolation of genomic loci from complex genomes by transformation-associated recombination cloning in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Nature Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 371-377

  Kouprina, Natalay ^a   Larionov, Vladimir ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CLONING VECTOR; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEGREGATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, YEAST; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, CIRCULAR; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME; GENOMICS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 40649092126     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2008.5     Document Type: Article

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