Genetics and electrophoretic karyotyping of wild-type and astaxanthin mutant strains of Phaffia rhodozyma

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 111-117

  Cifuentes, Víctor ^a   Hermosilla, Germán ^a   Martínez, Claudio ^a   León, Ruben ^a   Pincheira, Guido ^a   Jiménez, Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Astaxanthin; Carotene; Karyotype; Phaffia rhodozyma

Indexed keywords

ASTAXANTHIN; BETA CAROTENE; ELONGATION FACTOR 1ALPHA; REPETITIVE DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME BAND; CHROMOSOME POLYMORPHISM; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA PROBE; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENOME; KARYOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; YEAST;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; BETA CAROTENE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PROBES; DNA, FUNGAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOME, FUNGAL; KARYOTYPING; METHYLNITRONITROSOGUANIDINE; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PLASMIDS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; XANTHOPHYLLS;

FUNGI; PHAFFIA RHODOZYMA;

EID: 0030874040     PISSN: 00036072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1000200119447     Document Type: Article

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