Repetitive sequence variation and dynamics in the ribosomal DNA array of Saccharomyces cerevisiae as revealed by whole-genome resequencing

Genome Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 626-635

  James, Stephen A ^a,d   O'Kelly, Michael J T ^b,d,e   Carter, David M ^c,e   Davey, Robert P ^a   Van Oudenaarden, Alexander ^b   Roberts, Ian N ^a  

^a NORWICH RESEARCH PARK   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^e Autonomy Corporation   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HYBRID; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 63849198290     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.084517.108     Document Type: Article

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