A high throughput genetic screen identifies new early meiotic recombination functions in Arabidopsis thaliana

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  De Muyt, Arnaud ^a,b   Pereira, Lucie ^a   Vezon, Daniel ^a   Chelysheva, Liudmila ^a   Gendrot, Ghislaine ^a,c   Chambon, Aurélie ^a   Lainé Choinard, Sandrine ^a   Pelletier, Georges ^a   Mercier, Raphaël ^a   Nogué, Fabien ^a   Grelon, Mathilde ^a  

^a INSTITUT JEAN PIERRE BOURGIN   (France)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASY1 PROTEIN; DMC1 PROTEIN; HOP1 PROTEIN; PRD1 PROTEIN; SPO11 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ATDMC1 GENE; ATPRD1 GENE; ATPRD2 GENE; ATPRD3 GENE; ATSPO11 1 GENE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; FEMALE; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MALE; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROPHASE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; EXON; GENETICS; INTRON; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SYNAPSIS;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; EXONS; GENES, PLANT; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; INTRONS; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 70349671209     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000654     Document Type: Article

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