Fatal attraction: Nonself recognition and heterokaryon incompatibility in filamentous fungi

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-8

  Glass, N Louise ^a   Kaneko, Isao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOLOGY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GIANT CELL; METABOLISM; SHORT SURVEY;

APOPTOSIS; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CELL NUCLEUS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GIANT CELLS;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 0037524441     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.2.1.1-8.2003     Document Type: Short Survey

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