Hyphal homing, fusion and mycelial interconnectedness

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 135-141

  Glass, N Louise ^a   Rasmussen, Carolyn ^a   Roca, M Gabriela ^b   Read, Nick D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHEROMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BACTERIUM COLONY; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL FUSION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL ORGANELLE; CONIDIUM; CYTOPLASM; EUKARYOTE; FERTILIZATION; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; MORPHOLOGY; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL GENETICS; VEGETATIVE GROWTH;

ASCOMYCOTA; CELL FUSION; HYPHAE; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 1542316380     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2004.01.007     Document Type: Review

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