Improving the efficiency of gene replacements in Neurospora crassa: A first step towards a large-scale functional genomics project

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 56-71

  Pratt, Robert J ^a   Aramayo, Rodolfo ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Counterselection; Gene replacement; Heterokaryon incompatibility; Homologous integration; Hygromycin B phosphotransferase thymidine kinase gene fusion; L myo inositol 1 phosphate synthase; Marker eviction; Mating type; Neurospora crassa; Toxic gene

Indexed keywords

HYGROMYCIN B; INOSITOL PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; SYNTHETASE; THYMIDINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE FUSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENOME; GENOMICS; HETEROKARYON; MARKER GENE; MATING TYPE; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, FUNGAL; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 0036389848     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1087-1845(02)00032-4     Document Type: Article

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