AgTHR4, a new selection marker for transformation of the filamentous fungus Ashbya gossypii, maps in a four-gene cluster that is conserved between A. gossypii and Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 250, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 69-80

  Altmann Jöhl, Regula ^a   Philippsen, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ashbya gossypii; Evolutionary conservation; Filamentous fungus; Threonine synthase

Indexed keywords

THREONINE SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC MARKER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBON-OXYGEN LYASES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENETIC MARKERS; LYASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EREMOTHECIUM GOSSYPII; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030071933     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02191826     Document Type: Article

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