Initiation of meiotic homologous recombination: Flexibility, impact of histone modifications, and chromatin remodeling

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1-18

  Székvölgyi, Lóránt ^a   Ohta, Kunihiro ^b   Nicolas, Alain ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA DAMAGE; GENETICS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM;

CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA DAMAGE; HISTONES; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMANS; MEIOSIS;

EID: 84930423588     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a016527     Document Type: Article

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