White-cap mutants and meiotic apoptosis in the basidiomycete Coprinus cinereus

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 82-93

  Lu, Benjamin C ^a   Gallo, Natasha ^a   Kües, Ursula ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Coprinus; Meiosis; Synaptonemal complex; White cap mutants

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; FUNGAL DNA;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; BIOASSAY; CELL CYCLE; CELL TYPE; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPRINUS CINEREUS; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; DNA DEGRADATION; FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS MUTANT; FUNGUS SPORE; MATURATION; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MUSHROOM; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; SOMATIC CELL; SPOROGENESIS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; COPRINOPSIS CINEREA; COPRINUS; COPRINUS CINEREUS;

EID: 0038330354     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1087-1845(03)00024-0     Document Type: Article

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