Timeline - Happy Hollidays: 40th anniversary of the Holliday junction

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Liu, YL [1 ]
West, SC [1 ]
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[1] Canc Res UK, London Res Inst, Clare Hall Labs, S Mimms EN6 3LD, Herts, England
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英国工程与自然科学研究理事会; 英国惠康基金; 英国生物技术与生命科学研究理事会; 英国医学研究理事会;
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10.1038/nrm1502
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Q2 [细胞生物学];
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071009 ; 090102 ;
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In 1964, the geneticist Robin Holliday proposed a mechanism of DNA-strand exchange that attempted to explain gene-conversion events that occur during meiosis in fungi. His proposal marked the birthday of the now famous cross-stranded DNA structure, or Holliday junction. To understand the importance of the Holliday model we must look back in the history of science beyond the last 40 years, to a time when theories of heredity were being proposed by Gregor Johann Mendel.
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