Allelic specificity at the het-c heterokaryon incompatibility locus of Neurospora crassa is determined by a highly variable domain

Genetics

Volumn 146, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1299-1309

  Saupe, Sven J ^a   Glass, N Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROKARYON; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030872060     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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