Aspergillus nidulans mutants defective in stc gene cluster regulation

Genetics

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 715-720

  Butchko, Robert A E ^a   Adams, Thomas H ^a,b   Keller, Nancy P ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cereon Genomics LLP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; STERIGMATOCYSTIN;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; DIPLOIDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; STERIGMATOCYSTIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS;

EID: 0032845345     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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