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Published on: April 15, 2011
Mapping meiotic breaks: Spo11 oligonucleotides precisely mark the spots
Patty Yi-Hwa Hwang1, Neil Hunter
1Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Departments of Microbiology, Molecular & Cellular Biology and Cell Biology & Human Anatomy, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Genome Biology
|April 30, 2011
Abstract:
Initiation sites for meiotic recombination have now been precisely mapped across the budding yeast genome using a widely applicable deep-sequencing approach.
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