Extragenic suppressors of loss-of-function mutations in the Aspergillus FlbA regulator of G-protein signaling domain protein

Genetics

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 97-105

  Yu, Jae Hyuk ^a,b   Rosén, Stefan ^a   Adams, Thomas H ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cereon Genomics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MYCOTOXIN;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; DELETION MUTANT; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ALLELES; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; MYCOTOXINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPORES, FUNGAL; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ASCOMYCOTA; ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI;

EID: 0032922265     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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