Precocious sporulation and developmental lethality in yelA null mutants of Dictyostelium

Developmental Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 307-319

  Osherov, Nir ^a   Wang, Nancy ^a   Loomis, William F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental timing; Dictyostelium; Sporulation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCODINA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPOROGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; DICTYOSTELIUM; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, LETHAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPORES, FUNGAL;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; SARCODINA;

EID: 0030876641     PISSN: 0192253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1997)20:4<307::AID-DVG2>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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