What's in the genome of a filamentous fungus? Analysis of the Neurospora genome sequence

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1944-1954

  Mannhaupt, Gertrud ^a   Montrone, Corinna ^b   Haase, Dirk ^c   Mewes, Werner ^a,b   Aign, Verena ^d   Hoheisel, Jörg D ^d   Fartmann, Berthold ^e   Nyakatura, Gerald ^e   Kempken, Frank ^f   Maier, Josef ^g   Schulte, Ulrich ^h  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^e MWG Biotech AG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^h HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTIG; DNA; FATTY ACID SYNTHASE; FUNGAL ENZYME; FUNGAL PROTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LINKAGE GROUP; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; INTERNET; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0037386469     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg293     Document Type: Review

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