New and old ways to control meiotic recombination

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 411-421

  Phadnis, Naina ^a   Hyppa, Randy W ^a   Smith, Gerald R ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHESIN; DNA HYBRID; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATID; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRAND; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GAMETE; GENE CONTROL; GENE CONVERSION; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; HAPLOIDY; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SISTER CHROMATID; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIDS; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA REPAIR; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MICE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

EID: 80052788645     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2011.06.007     Document Type: Review

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