Mating type in Chlamydomonas is specified by mid, the minus-dominance gene

Genetics

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 859-869

  Ferris, Patrick J ^a,b   Goodenough, Ursula W ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; DIPLOIDY; DOMINANT GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SWITCHING; MATING TYPE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, DOMINANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII;

EID: 0030743704     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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