Remarkably high rate of DNA amplification promoted by the mating-type switching mechanism in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Genetics

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 285-289

  Yu, Chuanhe ^a   Bonaduce, Michael J ^a   Klar, Amar J S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MATING; MATING TYPE SWITCHING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION RATE; PHENOTYPE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

EID: 84860548588     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.138727     Document Type: Note

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