Characterisation of the mating-type locus of the plant pathogenic ascomycete Leptosphaeria maculans

Current Genetics

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 351-357

  Cozijnsen, Anton J ^a   Howlett, Barbara J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alpha box; DNA lyase; HMG box; Idiomorph

Indexed keywords

ANAPHASE PROMOTING COMPLEX; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; LYASE;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BASE PAIRING; COCHLIOBOLUS HETEROSTROPHUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS HYBRIDIZATION; DNA BINDING; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; LEPTOSPHAERIA; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COSMIDS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-(APURINIC OR APYRIMIDINIC SITE) LYASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ASCOMYCOTA; COCHLIOBOLUS; COCHLIOBOLUS HETEROSTROPHUS; FUNGI; LEPTOSPHAERIA; LEPTOSPHAERIA MACULANS; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 0041974799     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-003-0391-6     Document Type: Article

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