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The Arabidopsis AtRAD51 gene is dispensable for vegetative development but required for meiosis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 20 Jul 2004
Li Wuxing, Chen Changbin, Markmann-Mulisch Ullrich, Timofejeva Ljudmilla, Schmelzer Elmon, Ma Hong, Reiss Bernd
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The maintenance of genome integrity and the generation of biological diversity are important biological processes, and both involve homologous recombination. In yeast and animals, homologous recombination requires the function of the RAD51 recombinase. In vertebrates, RAD51 seems to have acquired additional functions in the maintenance of genome integrity, and rad51 mutations cause lethality, but it is not clear...
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