An efficient procedure to isolate fungal genes from an indexed cosmid library

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-61

  Pöggeler, Stefanie ^a   Nowrousian, Minou ^a   Jacobsen, Sabine ^a   Kück, Ulrich ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Tubulin gene; Fungal transformation; Indexed cosmid library; Sordaria macrospora; ura5 Gene

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; COSMID; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0242374746     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7012(97)00018-3     Document Type: Article

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