Comparative genomics in hemiascomycete yeasts: Evolution of sex, silencing, and subtelomeres

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 856-873

  Fabre, Emmanuelle ^a   Muller, Héloïse ^a   Therizols, Pierre ^a   Lafontaine, Ingrid ^a   Dujon, Bernard ^a   Fairhead, Cécile ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Gene families; Hemiascomycetes; Mating type; Silencing of chromatin; Subtelomeres

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE GENOMICS; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE CASSETTE; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; MATING TYPE; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUALITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE SILENCING; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TELOMERE;

EID: 16344393340     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi070     Document Type: Article

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