Chitin synthase genes in the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus versiforme: Full sequence of a gene encoding a class IV chitin synthase

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 59-67

  Lanfranco, Luisa ^a   Garnero, Lilia ^a   Bonfante, Paola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cell wall; Chitin synthase; Genomic library; Glomus versiforme; Morphogenesis; PCR amplification

Indexed keywords

CHITIN SYNTHASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL WALL; FUNGUS; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; MORPHOGENESIS; MYCORRHIZA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHITIN SYNTHASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; ZYGOMYCOTA;

FUNGI; GLOMUS VERSIFORME; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 0032953726     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00525-4     Document Type: Article

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