Mitochondria are inherited from the MATa parent in crosses of the basidiomycete fungus Cryptococcus neoformans

Genetics

Volumn 163, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1315-1325

  Yan, Zhun ^a   Xu, Jianping ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN MATA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BASIDIOMYCETES; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIPLOIDY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CROSS; GENOTYPE; HYBRID; INHERITANCE; MATING TYPE; MEIOSIS; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS;

CROSSES, GENETIC; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; MITOCHONDRIA;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

EID: 0037399011     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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