Mismatch repair during homologous and homeologous recombination

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Spies, Maria ^a   Fishel, Richard ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; EVOLUTION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; MISMATCH REPAIR; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA MISMATCH REPAIR; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84924787370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a022657     Document Type: Article

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