Theory of time-resolved somatic complementation and its use to explore the sporulation control network in Physarum polycephalum

Genetics

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 105-115

  Marwan, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; KINETICS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, RECESSIVE; KINETICS; LIGHT; MUTATION; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; SPORES, PROTOZOAN; TIME FACTORS;

CHONDROMYCES; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM;

EID: 0037517058     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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