An approach to identify functional homologues and suppressors of genes in fission yeast

Current Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-31

  Grallert, Beáta ^a,b   Nurse, Paul ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

cdc Mutants; Fission yeast; Functional homologues; ts Mutants

Indexed keywords

ACTIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C MYC; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SUPPRESSOR GENE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, SUPPRESSOR; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MUTATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; TEMPERATURE;

FUNGI; MAMMALIA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0030826573     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050244     Document Type: Article

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