Phylogenetic relationships between mating-type sequences from homothallic and heterothallic ascomycetes

Current Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 222-231

  Pöggeler, Stefanie ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

gpd gene; Mating type genes; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENETICS; MATING TYPE; NEUROSPORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA; PHYLOGENY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SORDARIALES;

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; NEUROSPORA; SORDARIA;

EID: 0032878010     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050494     Document Type: Article

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