Pheromone signalling and polarized morphogenesis in yeast

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 59-66

  Leberer, Ekkehard ^a   Thomas, David Y ^b   Whiteway, Malcolm ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHEROMONE; RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; MATING; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; YEAST CELL;

EID: 0031058930     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(97)80110-4     Document Type: Article

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