Happy Hollidays: 40th anniversary of the Holliday junction
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- 1 November 2004
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
- Vol. 5 (11) , 937-944
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nrm1502
Abstract
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.Keywords
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