Recombination can cause telomere elongations as well as truncations deep within telomeres in wild-type Kluyveromyces lactis cells

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 226-236

  Bechard, Laura H ^a,b   Jamieson, Nathan ^a   McEachern, Michael J ^a  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAD52 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; KLUYVEROMYCES; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TELOMERE;

BASE SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; KLUYVEROMYCES; MEIOSIS; RAD52 DNA REPAIR AND RECOMBINATION PROTEIN; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE DELETION; TELOMERE;

KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 79951495658     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00209-10     Document Type: Article

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