Vegetative incompatibility in filamentous fungi: A roundabout way of understanding the phenomenon

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 239-245

  Loubradou, Gabriel ^a   Turcq, Béatrice ^b  

^a Inst fur Genetik und Mikrobiologie   (Germany)

^b Institut de Biochimie et Genetique Cellulaires   (France)

Author keywords

Development; Fungus; Signaling pathways; Vegetative incompatibility

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; HETEROKARYON; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PODOSPORA ANSERINA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

FUNGI; PODOSPORA ANSERINA;

EID: 0034039589     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-2508(00)00145-5     Document Type: Review

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