Self-organization of meiotic recombination initiation: General principles and molecular pathways

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue , 2014, Pages 187-214

  Keeney, Scott ^a   Lange, Julian ^a   Mohibullah, Neeman ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ATM; cell cycle; DNA double strand breaks; DNA replication; Spo11

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE; CELL STRESS; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; DNA REPLICATION; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PROPHASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA REPAIR; GENETICS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION;

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84913555911     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-120213-092304     Document Type: Article

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