The fission yeast BLM komolog Rqh1 promotes meiotic recombination

Genetics

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1157-1167

  Cromie, Gareth A ^a   Hyppa, Randy W ^a   Smith, Gerald R ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA HYBRID; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; RECQ HELICASE; SGS1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BLOOM SYNDROME HELICASE; HELICASE; RQH1 PROTEIN, S POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEIN; SRS2 PROTEIN, S POMBE;

ARTICLE; BUDDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FUNGUS MUTANT; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SISTER CHROMATID; WILD TYPE; ALLELE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DNA REPAIR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

FUNGI; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

ALLELES; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPAIR; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DUPLICATION; MEIOSIS; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 52049087774     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.088955     Document Type: Article

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