Silent but not static: Accelerated base-pair substitution in silenced chromatin of budding yeasts

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Teytelman, Leonid ^a   Eisen, Michael B ^a,b   Rine, Jasper ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BUDDING; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSPOSON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POINT MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES; TELOMERE;

METAZOA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SACCHAROMYCES; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 57149102482     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000247     Document Type: Article

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