Homologous recombinational repair proteins in mouse meiosis

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 107, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 191-200

  Bannister, L A ^a   Schimenti, J C ^a,b  

^a JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MRE11 PROTEIN; RAD50 PROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN; RAD52 PROTEIN; RAD54 PROTEIN; SPO11 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GONAD; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; MEIOSIS; MICE; PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 5644240804     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000080597     Document Type: Review

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