Compact organization of rRNA genes in the filamentous fungus Ashbya gossypii

Current Genetics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 618-625

  Wendland, Jürgen ^a   Pöhlmann, Rainer ^a   Dietrich, Fred ^a   Steiner, Sabine ^a,b   Mohr, Christine ^a,c   Philippsen, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c Glaxo Wellcome   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ascomycete; Phylogeny; rDNA; rRNA processing

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 18S; RNA 5.8S; RNA PRECURSOR;

ARTICLE; ENHANCER REGION; FUNGUS; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; START CODON; TANDEM REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EREMOTHECIUM GOSSYPII; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0344131964     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050460     Document Type: Article

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