Transposons in filamentous fungi-facts and perspectives

BioEssays

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 652-659

  Kempken, Frank ^a   Kück, Ulrich ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL GENE; GENE TRANSFER; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGI; RETROELEMENTS; TRANSPOSASES;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0345646461     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-1878(199808)20:8<652::AID-BIES8>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Review

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