Characterization of rco-1 of Neurospora crassa, a pleiotropic gene affecting growth and development that encodes a homolog of Tup1 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 6218-6228

  Yamashiro, Carl T ^a,c   Ebbole, Daniel J ^b   Lee, Bheong U K ^a   Brown, Rhett E ^a   Bourland, Catherine ^a   Madi, Lea ^b,d   Yanofsky, Charles ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PERKINELMER INC   (United States)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FUNGUS GROWTH; MYCELIUM; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPOROGENESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0029828079     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.11.6218     Document Type: Article

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