Multiple versions of the A mating type locus of Coprinus cinereus are generated by three paralogous pairs of multiallelic homeobox genes

Genetics

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 87-94

  Pardo, Eneida H ^a   O'Shea, Suzanne F ^a   Casselton, Lorna A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ALLELISM; ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; COPRINUS; GENE LOCUS; HOMEOBOX; MATING TYPE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ALLELES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COPRINUS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

COPRINOPSIS CINEREA; COPRINUS;

EID: 0029763744     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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