Meiotic transvection in fungi

Cell

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 103-113

  Aramayo, Rodolfo ^a,b   Metzenberg, Robert L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC REGULATION; MEIOSIS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

FUNGI; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 0030581176     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80081-1     Document Type: Article

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