Dynamics of homology searching during gene conversion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae revealed by donor competition

Genetics

Volumn 189, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1225-1233

  Coïc, Eric ^a,b   Martin, Joshua ^b,d   Ryu, Taehyun ^a   Tay, Sue Yen ^a,c   Kondev, Jané ^a   Haber, James E ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Direction des Sciences du Vivant   (France)

^c Neopeutics Sdn Bhd Halaman Bukit Gambir   (Malaysia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIGENETICS; FUNGAL GENE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; HML GENE; HMR GENE; MATING TYPE GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

GENE CONVERSION; GENE SILENCING; GENES, FUNGAL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 83455197497     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.111.132738     Document Type: Article

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