Switching mating types with one arm tied
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Switching mating types with one arm tied
he mating type (MAT) locus on Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosome III can recombine with the HMRa locus near the right telomere or the HML ␣ locus near the left telomere of the same chromosome. On page 361, Bressan et al. show that the current mating type of a cell determines the spatial configuration of these three loci in the nucleus, suggesting that the outcome of mating type switching is di...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cell Biology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1540-8140,0021-9525
DOI: 10.1083/jcb1643iti4