Meiotic recombination: The essence of heredity

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Hunter, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENDONUCLEASE;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMOSOME; CROSSING OVER; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; FEMALE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MATERNAL AGE; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

CHROMOSOMES; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; ENDONUCLEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; MEIOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84946440917     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a016618     Document Type: Article

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