The molecular nature of mutations in the mt A-1 gene of the Neurospora crassa A idiomorph and their relation to mating-type function

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 250, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 115-122

  Saupe, Sven ^a   Stenberg, Leisa ^a   Shiu, Ka Tai ^a   Griffiths, Anthony J F ^a   Glass, N Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Heterokaryon incompatibility; Mating type; Mutations; Neurospora

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; FERTILITY; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HETEROKARYON; MATING TYPE; MUTANT; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; OPEN READING FRAMES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030031118     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050057     Document Type: Article

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