Kim McKim

All Paired-Up with No Place To Go: Pairing, Synapsis, and DSB Formation in A Balancer Heterozygote (2005)

Wei J. Gong, Kim McKim, R. Scott Hawley

The multiply inverted X chromosome balancer FM7 strongly suppresses, or eliminates, the occurrence of crossing over when heterozygous with a normal sequence homolog. We have utilized the LacI-GFP:...

Synthetic Lethality of Drosophila in the Absence of the MUS81 Endonuclease and the DmBlm Helicase Is Associated With Elevated Apoptosis

Trowbridge, Kirsten, McKim, Kim, Brill, Steven J., Sekelsky, Jeff

Mus81-Mms4 (Mus81-Eme1 in some species) is a heterodimeric DNA structure-specific endonuclease that has been implicated in meiotic recombination and processing of damaged replication forks in fungi....