The pheromone cell signaling components of the Ustilago a mating-type loci determine intercompatibility between species

Genetics

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1601-1613

  Bakkeren, Guus ^a   Kronstad, James W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

BARLEY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORN; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MATING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; USTILAGO MAYDIS;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; HORDEUM; PHEROMONES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; USTILAGO; VIRULENCE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0029840166     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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