A meiotically reproducible chromosome length polymorphism in the ascomycete fungus Ophiostoma ulmi (sensu lato)

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 255, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 38-44

  Dewar, K ^a,b   Bousquet, J ^a   Dufour, J ^a   Bernier, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome length polymorphisms; Electrophoretic karyotypes; Genome rearrangements; Ophiostoma ulmi (sensu lato)

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CHROMOSOME POLYMORPHISM; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENETICS; INHERITANCE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPHIOSTOMALES; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASCOMYCOTA; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOME, FUNGAL; KARYOTYPING; MEIOSIS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION;

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI; OPHIOSTOMA ULMI; OPHIOSTOMATALES;

EID: 0030797897     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050472     Document Type: Article

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