PCH'ing together an understanding of crossover controle

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Thacker, Drew ^a,b   Keeney, Scott ^a,b,c  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Weill Cornell Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTIDINE; LEUCINE; SPO11 PROTEIN; NONHISTONE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CROSSING OVER; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HOMEOSTASIS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PROPHASE; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; YEAST; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NOTE;

CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; MEIOSIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 68249111600     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000576     Document Type: Review

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