Physical maps for genome analysis of serotype A and D strains of the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans

Genome Research

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1445-1453

  Schein, Jacqueline E ^a   Tangen, Kristin L ^b   Chiu, Readman ^a   Shin, Heesun ^a   Lengeler, Klaus B ^c   MacDonald, William Kim ^b   Bosdet, Ian ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^c   Jones, Steven J M ^a   Marra, Marco A ^a   Kronstad, James W ^b  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CONTIG MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE MAPPING; GENE ORDER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; KARYOTYPING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE;

CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CONTIG MAPPING; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, FUNGAL; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME, FUNGAL; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

EID: 0036737858     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.81002     Document Type: Article

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