Agrobacterium tumefaciens integrates transfer DNA into single chromosomal sites of dimorphic fungi and yields homokaryotic progeny from multinucleate yeast

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 895-905

  Sullivan, Thomas D ^a   Rooney, Peggy J ^a   Klein, Bruce S ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CINNAMATES; DNA; DNA, FUNGAL; FLUORESCENT DYES; FUNGI; GALACTOSIDES; HYGROMYCIN B; INDOLES; MODELS, GENETIC; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; URACIL;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS; AJELLOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BLASTOMYCES; FUNGI;

EID: 0011155271     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.1.6.895-905.2002     Document Type: Article

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