Paxilline-negative mutants of Penicillium paxilli generated by heterologous and homologous plasmid integration

Current Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 368-377

  Young, Carolyn ^a   Itoh, Yasuo ^b   Johnson, Richard ^a,d   Garthwaite, Ian ^c   Miles, Christopher O ^c   Munday Finch, Sarah C ^c   Scott, Barry ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RUAKURA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^d TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deletion mutations; Homologous recombination; pAN7 1; Paxilline mutants; Penicillium paxilli; Plasmid tagging

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PAXILLINE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENOMIC LIBRARY; INDOLES; MYCOTOXINS; PENICILLIUM; PLASMIDS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

FUNGI; PENICILLIUM PAXILLI;

EID: 0031832871     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050349     Document Type: Article

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