Apparent genetic redundancy facilitates ecological plasticity for nitrate transport

EMBO Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 22, 2001, Pages 6246-6255

  Unkles, Shiela E ^a,b   Zhou, Degen ^c   Siddiqi, M Yaeesh ^c   Kinghorn, James R ^a   Glass, Anthony D M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aspergillus nidulans; Ecological plasticity; Genetic redundancy; Nitrate assimilation; Nitrate transport

Indexed keywords

NITRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; ECOLOGY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; COSMIDS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NITRATES; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 0035890137     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/20.22.6246     Document Type: Article

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