Resolution of budding yeast chromosomes using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1054, Issue , 2013, Pages 195-207

  Hage, Aziz El ^a   Houseley, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agarose embedded yeast DNA; Contour clamped homogeneous electric field (CHEF); Hybridization; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE); Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Southern blot

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; DNA;

ARTICLE; BUDDING; CELL SUSPENSION; CHROMOSOME; CROSS LINKING; DNA TRANSFER; HYBRIDIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STAINING; YEAST; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PROCEDURES;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

CHROMOSOMES; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84922764778     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-565-1_13     Document Type: Article

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