Cloning of the mating type loci from Pyrenopeziza brassicae reveals the presence of a novel mating type gene within a discomycete MAT 1-2 locus encoding a putative metallothionein-like protein

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 799-806

  Singh, Gurjeet ^a   Ashby, Alison M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; METALLOTHIONEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; FUNGUS; GENE LOCUS; MATING TYPE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; BRASSICA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PROBES; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; METALLOTHIONEIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; PYRENOPEZIZA BRASSICAE;

EID: 0031791457     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01112.x     Document Type: Article

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