The RAD51 gene family in bread wheat is highly conserved across eukaryotes, with RAD51A upregulated during early meiosis

Functional Plant Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1267-1277

  Khoo, Kelvin H P ^a   Jolly, Hayley R ^a   Able, Jason A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evolution; Recombination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHROMOSOMES; GENE EXPRESSION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS;

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOINFORMATICS ANALYSES; BREAD WHEATS; CHARACTERISATION; EVOLUTION; EXPRESSION LEVELS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FAMILIES; HEXAPLOID; HIGHER PLANTS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATIONS; HOMOLOGY SEARCHING; IN PLANTS; IN PROCESSES; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MOLECULAR MODELLING; ORTHOLOGUES; PROTEIN FAMILIES; RECOMBINATION; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; WESTERN BLOTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ANTIBODY; BACTERIUM; BIOINFORMATICS; CHROMOSOME; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PROTEIN; RECOMBINATION; WHEAT; YEAST;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; VERTEBRATA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 57749174266     PISSN: 14454408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/FP08203     Document Type: Article

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