Mating-type locus of Cryptococcus neoformans: A step in the evolution of sex chromosomes

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 704-718

  Lengeler, Klaus B ^a   Fox, Deborah S ^a   Fraser, James A ^a   Allen, Andria ^a   Forrester, Keri ^a   Dietrich, Fred S ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA;

PEPTIDE; PHEROMONE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; MATING FACTOR; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PHEROMONES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0036778017     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.1.5.704-718.2002     Document Type: Article

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