Light controls growth and development via a conserved pathway in the fungal kingdom

PLoS Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 0615-0626

  Idnurm, Alexander ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; OPSIN; PHYTOCHROME; PROTEIN BWC1; PROTEIN BWC2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; VISUAL PROTEINS AND PIGMENTS;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BASIDIOMYCETES; BLUE LIGHT; CELL FUSION; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DARKNESS; FEMALE; FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC REGULATION; HAPLOIDY; LIGHT; MATING; MOUSE; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHOTOALLERGY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; CROSS BREEDING; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETICS; GENOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

AGROBACTERIUM; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; MURINAE; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CROSSES, GENETIC; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTORECEPTORS, MICROBIAL; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 17844395528     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030095     Document Type: Article

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