Switching the mechanism of mating type switching: A domesticated transposase supplants a domesticated homing endonuclease

Genes and Development

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 10-14

  Rusche, Laura N ^a   Rine, Jasper ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA double strand break; Gene conversion; Mating type switch; Sexual reproduction; Transposable element

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; TRANSPOSASE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CONTROL; GENE CONVERSION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; KLUYVEROMYCES; MATE CHOICE; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENDONUCLEASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SILENCING; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; KLUYVEROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSPOSASES;

KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 73549108534     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1886310     Document Type: Review

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