Meiotic recombination in yeast.
Over the past several years, the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has proven to be an extremely useful model system for understanding how cells acquire high recombinational ability during meiosis. Due to recent advances in the physical monitoring of DNA intermediates during meiosis, new cytological methods for visualization of chromosomes during pairing and exchange, and progress in the identification and analysis of recombination-defective mutants, a general picture of the order and dependencies of specific recombination events is now emerging.
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Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637.
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D008540:Meiosis; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics*