A gene associated with filamentous growth in Ophiostoma novo-ulmi has RNA-binding motifs and is similar to a yeast gene involved in mRNA splicing

Current Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 94-103

  Pereira, Veronica ^a   Royer, John C ^a,b   Hintz, William E ^a,c   Field, Deborah ^a   Bowden, Christine ^a   Kokurewicz, Karl ^a   Hubbes, Martin ^a   Horgen, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Microbia PE Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dimorphism; Insertional mutagenesis; Ophiostoma novo ulmi; RNA binding proteins (RNPs)

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; OPHIOSTOMALES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; OPHIOSTOMA NOVA-ULMI; OPHIOSTOMA NOVO; OPHIOSTOMA NOVO-ULMI; OPHIOSTOMATALES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0034065702     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050015     Document Type: Article

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