Initiation of meiotic recombination: How and where? Conservation and specificities among eukaryotes

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 47, Issue , 2013, Pages 563-599

  De Massy, Bernard ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Crossover; DNA double strand break; Genome stability; Meiosis; Sexual reproduction

Indexed keywords

SPO11 PROTEIN;

CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CROSSING OVER; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; EUKARYOTE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RECOMBINATION REPAIR; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA REPAIR; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE II; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; EUKARYOTA; GENE DUPLICATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TELOMERE;

EID: 84888594733     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-110711-155423     Document Type: Review

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