Genetic analysis of wild-isolated Neurospora crassa strains identified as dominant suppressors of repeat-induced point mutation

Genetics

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 947-961

  Bhat, Ashwin ^a   Noubissi, Felicite K ^a   Vyas, Meenal ^a   Kasbekar, Durgadas P ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELTA 14 STEROL REDUCTASE; DELTA 14-STEROL REDUCTASE; DNA; GENE PRODUCT; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROTEIN ERG 3; PROTEIN SAD 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETICS; MEIOSIS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TRANSPOSON;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENE SILENCING; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; POINT MUTATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0042709608     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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