Cloning and heterologous expression of Solorina crocea pyrG

Current Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 333-338

  Sinnemann, Shannon J ^a   Andrésson, Ólafur S ^b   Brown, Daren W ^a   Miao, Vivian P W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Fungal transformation; Lichen; PyrG; Temperature

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; OROTIDINE 5' PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE; URIDINE;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; LICHENS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; LICHENS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OROTIDINE-5'-PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; SOLORINA CROCEA;

EID: 0342368628     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050536     Document Type: Article

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