An Argonaute-like protein is required for meiotic silencing

Genetics

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 821-828

  Lee, Dong W ^a   Pratt, Robert J ^a   McLaughlin, Malcolm ^a   Aramayo, Rodolfo ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; SUPPRESSOR OF MEIOTIC SILENCING 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPOROGENESIS;

ALLELES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; GENOTYPE; MEIOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA; PHYLOGENY;

NEUROSPORA;

EID: 0038463581     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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