Isolation and characterization of mutants as an approach to a transformation system in Kluyveromyces marxianus

Current Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 89-92

  Basabe, Liliana ^a   Cabrera, Nelson ^a   Yong, Vladimir ^a   Menéndez, Javier ^a   Delgado, Julio M ^a   Rodríguez, Luis ^a  

^a CENTER FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Cuba)

Author keywords

HIS3; Kluyveromyces marxianus; Mutants; Yeast

Indexed keywords

NYSTATIN;

ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHIC MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; KLUYVEROMYCES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SNAIL;

GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HISTIDINE; KLUYVEROMYCES; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

FUNGI; GASTROPODA; KLUYVEROMYCES MARXIANUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030017981     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050105     Document Type: Article

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