Mating types and sexual development in filamentous ascomycetes

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 411-428

  Coppin, Evelyne ^a   Debuchy, Robert ^a   Arnaise, Sylvie ^a   Picard, Marguerite ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ASCOMYCETES; BOTRYTINIA FUCKELIANA; CELL DEATH; COCHLIOBOLUS HETEROSTROPHUS; DNA BINDING; FERTILIZATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMOBASIDIOMYCETES; MADURELLA GRISSA; MATING TYPE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PODOSPORA ANDERINA; REVIEW; SCLEROTINIA TRIFOLOTIUM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; BOTRYTINIA; COCHLIOBOLUS HETEROSTROPHUS; HOMOBASIDIOMYCETES; MADURELLA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PODOSPORA; PODOSPORA ANSERINA; SCLEROTINIA;

EID: 0031469339     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/.61.4.411-428.1997     Document Type: Review

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