Movement of a small mitochondrial double-stranded RNA element of Cryphonectria parasitica: Ascospore inheritance and implications for mitochondrial recombination

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 256, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 566-571

  Polashock, J J ^a   Bedker, P J ^a   Hillman, B I ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chestnut blight; Fungal virus; Hypovirulence

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TREE; VIRULENCE;

ASCOMYCOTA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, FUNGAL; SPORES, FUNGAL; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0030784853     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050602     Document Type: Article

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