Meiotic gene conversion and crossing over: their relationship to each other and to chromosome synapsis and segregation.

doi:10.1016/0092-8674(90)90267-i

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Meiotic gene conversion and crossing over: their relationship to each other and to chromosome synapsis and segregation.

Cell - 7 Sept 1990

Engebrecht J, Hirsch J, Roeder G S

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The yeast mer1 mutant produces inviable spores and is defective in both meiotic recombination and chromosome pairing. A gene called MER2 partially suppresses the mer1 phenotype when present in high copy number. Both gene conversion and chromosome pairing are completely restored in mer1 strains ov...

Topics

Cell Nucleus
Chromosomes, Fungal
Crossing Over, Genetic
Gene Conversion
Genes, Fungal
Genotype
Meiosis
Mutation
Plasmids
Recombination, Genetic
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Spores, Fungal
Suppression, Genetic

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