The double-strand-break repair model for recombination.

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Summary

This work proposes a new mechanism for meiotic recombination, in which events are initiated by double-strand breaks that are enlarged to double- Strand gaps, and postmeiotic segregation can result from heteroduplex DNA formed at the boundaries of the gap-repair region.

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review
Published
1983-05-01
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Keywords

Heteroduplex, Gene conversion, Homologous recombination, Biology, Recombination

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