The mating type locus of Neurospora crassa: Identification of an adjacent gene and characterization of transcripts surrounding the idiomorphs

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 259, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 615-621

  Randall, T A ^a,b   Metzenberg, R L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mating type; Neurospora; Repeats; Variable regions

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CENTROMERE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MATING TYPE; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS;

CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PEPTIDES; PHEROMONES; RNA, FUNGAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031795137     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050855     Document Type: Article

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