A circular mitochondrial plasmid incites hypovirulence in some strains of Cryphonectria parasitica

Current Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 242-256

  Monteiro Vitorello, Claudia B ^a,c   Baidyaroy, Dipnath ^b   Bell, Julia A ^b   Hausner, Georg ^a,d   Fulbright, Dennis W ^b   Bertrand, Helmut ^a  

^a Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chestnut blight; Endothia; Hypovirulence; Hypovirus; Mitochondrial plasmid

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPHONECTRIA PARASITICA; CYTOPLASM; DISSOCIATION; FUNGUS; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; VIRULENCE;

CRYPHONECTRIA PARASITICA; ENDOTHIA; FUNGI; HYPOVIRUS; NEUROSPORA; TEREBRANTIA;

EID: 0034007174     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050526     Document Type: Article

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