Nucleosomal organization of replication origins and meiotic recombination hotspots in fission yeast

EMBO Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 124-137

  De Castro, Elisa ^a   Soriano, Ignacio ^a   Marín, Laura ^a   Serrano, Rebeca ^a   Quintales, Luis ^a   Antequera, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

double strand breaks; genome organization; meiotic recombination; nucleosomes; replication origin

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; GENOME, FUNGAL; MEIOSIS; NUCLEOSOMES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPLICATION ORIGIN; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 84855351444     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2011.350     Document Type: Article

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