A large pheromone and receptor gene complex determines multiple B mating type specificities in Coprinus cinereus

Genetics

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1081-1090

  O'Shea, Suzanne F ^a   Chaure, Pushpalata T ^a   Halsall, John R ^a   Olesnicky, Natalie S ^a   Leibbrandt, Andreas ^a   Connerton, Ian F ^b   Casselton, Lorna A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE RECEPTOR; PHEROMONE;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COPRINUS; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COPRINUS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PHEROMONES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RECEPTORS, MATING FACTOR; RECEPTORS, PEPTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; COPRINOPSIS CINEREA; COPRINUS; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 0031971988     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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