Intra-specific and inter-specific conservation of mating-type genes from the discomycete plant-pathogenic fungi Pyrenopeziza brassicae and Tapesia yallundae

Current Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 290-300

  Singh, Gurjeet ^a   Ashby, Alison M ^a   Dyer, Paul S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alpha box; Ascomycete; High mobility group; Metallothionein

Indexed keywords

METALLOTHIONEIN;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA PROBE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MATING TYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PLANTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ASCOBOLACEAE; ASCOBOLUS; ASCOMYCOTA; DERMATEACEAE; FUNGI; HELOTIALES; MOLLISIA; MYXOGASTRIA; OCULIMACULA YALLUNDAE; PEZIZALES; PYRENOPEZIZA BRASSICAE; STERCORARIUS;

EID: 0344578001     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050503     Document Type: Article

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