Novel factor highly conserved among eukaryotes controls sexual development in fission yeast

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 887-895

  Okazaki, Noriko ^a   Okazaki, Koei ^a   Watanabe, Yoshinori ^b   Kato Hayashi, Mariko ^b   Yamamoto, Masayuki ^b   Okayama, Hiroto ^a,c  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE SEQUENCE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0031931604     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.2.887     Document Type: Article

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