Mating type gene homologues in Aspergillus fumigatus

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 816-819

  Varga, János ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; HYDROPHOBIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE KINASE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CERATOCYSTIS EUCALYPTI; COCHLIOBOLUS; DNA BINDING; FUNGUS; FUSARIUM CULMORUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DATABASE; GIBBERELLA; MATING SYSTEM; MEIOSIS; MYCOSPHAERELLA GRAMINICOLA; NEOSARTORYA FENNELLIAE; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PENICILLIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MEIOSIS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ASCOMYCOTA; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CERATOCYSTIS; CERATOCYSTIS EUCALYPTI; COCHLIOBOLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM CULMORUM; GIBBERELLA; GRAMINICOLA; MYCOSPHAERELLA; MYCOSPHAERELLA GRAMINICOLA; NEOSARTORYA; NEOSARTORYA FENNELLIAE; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PENICILLIUM; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0038366916     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.C0113-0     Document Type: Article

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