Exploiting spore-autonomous fluorescent protein expression to quantify meiotic chromosome behaviors in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Genetics

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 423-439

  Thacker, Drew ^a,b   Lam, Isabel ^a   Knop, Michael ^d   Keeney, Scott ^a,b,c  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Weill Cornell Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; SPORE AUTONOMOUS FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE CONVERSION; GENE FREQUENCY; HOMEOSTASIS; INHERITANCE; MEIOSIS; MICRODISSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SPORES, FUNGAL; TIME FACTORS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 80053955007     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.111.131326     Document Type: Article

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