Meiotic recombination hotspots of fission yeast are directed to loci that express non-coding RNA

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Wahls, Wayne P ^a   Siegel, Eric R ^a   Davidson, Mari K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL RNA; SPACER DNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; HYPOTHESIS; MEIOSIS; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYADENYLATION; RNA METABOLISM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; YEAST; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; DNA DAMAGE; FUNGAL GENOME; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EUKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA DAMAGE; DNA, FUNGAL; GENETIC CODE; GENOME, FUNGAL; MEIOSIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 51449116998     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002887     Document Type: Article

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