Structure of a Gelasinospora linear plasmid closely related to the kalilo plasmid of Neurospora intermedia

Current Genetics

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 150-158

  Yuewang, Wei ^a,b   Yang, Xiao ^a,c   Griffiths, Anthony J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gelasinospora; Mitochondria; Neurospora; Plasmid

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOME; NEUROSPORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; LOUISIANA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0030064472     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050030     Document Type: Article

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