Mating-type genes from the homothallic fungus Sordaria macrospora are functionally expressed in a heterothallic ascomycete

Genetics

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 567-580

  Pöggeler, Stefanie ^a   Risch, Siegfried ^a   Kück, Ulrich ^a   Osiewacz, Heinz D ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE LOCUS; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; LIPOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI; MACROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PODOSPORA ANSERINA; SORDARIA; SORDARIA MACROSPORA;

EID: 0030846843     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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