Monitoring the rate and dynamics of concerted evolution in the ribosomal DNA repeats of saccharomyces cerevisiae using experimental evolution

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2883-2891

  Ganley, Austen R D ^a,b,c   Kobayashi, Takehiko ^b,d,e  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^e GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

concerted evolution; experimental evolution; recombination; ribosomal DNA; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; GENE DUPLICATION; HOMOGENATE; NONHUMAN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 80053195339     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr117     Document Type: Article

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