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Preaching about the converted: how meiotic gene conversion influences genomic diversityFrancesca Cole
Developmental Biology Program, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, New York, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1267:95-102. 2012..We discuss the potential impact of mammalian NCO characteristics on evolution and genomic diversity...
Evolutionary conservation of meiotic DSB proteins: more than just Spo11Francesca Cole
Developmental Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA
Genes Dev 24:1201-7. 2010..1266-1280) used a phylogenomic approach to identify two of these proteins across multiple clades, and confirmed that one of these, MEI4, is a functional ortholog in mouse...
Isolation of meiotic recombinants from mouse spermFrancesca Cole
Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
Methods Mol Biol 745:251-82. 2011..Amplification of recombinant products directly from sperm DNA is a powerful approach to determine recombination frequencies and map recombination breakpoints, providing insight into homologous recombination mechanisms...
Homeostatic control of recombination is implemented progressively in mouse meiosisFrancesca Cole
Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, New York 10065, USA
Nat Cell Biol 14:424-30. 2012..Meiotic recombination exemplifies how order can be progressively implemented in a self-organizing system despite natural cell-to-cell disparities in the underlying biochemical processes...
ATM controls meiotic double-strand-break formationJulian Lange
Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, New York 10065, USA
Nature 479:237-40. 2011..Our findings explain previously puzzling phenotypes of Atm-null mice and provide a molecular basis for the gonadal dysgenesis observed in ataxia telangiectasia, the human syndrome caused by ATM deficiency...
Comprehensive, fine-scale dissection of homologous recombination outcomes at a hot spot in mouse meiosisFrancesca Cole
Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA
Mol Cell 39:700-10. 2010..Transmission distortion was observed in one hybrid, with NCOs providing a significant contribution. Thus, NCO recombination events play a substantial role in mammalian meiosis and genome evolution...
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- Apoptosis in recombination-deficient meiocytesFrancesca Cole; Fiscal Year: 2007....
