Stabilization and electrophoretic analysis of meiotic recombination intermediates in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 557, Issue , 2009, Pages 209-234

  Oh, Steve D ^a   Jessop, Lea ^b   Lao, Jessica P ^a   Allers, Thorsten ^b   Lichten, Michael ^b   Hunter, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

D loop; double strand break; electrophoresis; Holliday junction; homologous recombination; joint molecule; Meiosis; strand exchange

Indexed keywords

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

FUNGAL DNA;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEIOSIS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RESTRICTION MAPPING; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ALGORITHMS; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; DNA, FUNGAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; MEIOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 70350782430     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-527-5_14     Document Type: Article

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