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C. elegans germ cells switch between distinct modes of double-strand break repair during meiotic prophase progression.
PLoS genetics - 1 Nov 2007
Hayashi Michiko, Chin Gregory M, Villeneuve Anne M
Abstract excerpt
Chromosome inheritance during sexual reproduction relies on deliberate induction of double-strand DNA breaks (DSBs) and repair of a subset of these breaks as interhomolog crossovers (COs). Here we provide a direct demonstration, based on our analysis of rad-50 mutants, that the meiotic program in Caenorhabditis elegans involves both acquisition and loss of a specialized mode of double-strand break repair (DSBR)....
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