Evidence for sexuality in the opportunistic fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus

Current Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1242-1248

  Paoletti, Mathieu ^a   Rydholm, Carla ^b   Schwier, Elke U ^a   Anderson, Michael J ^c   Szakacs, George ^d   Lutzoni, François ^b   Debeaupuis, Jean Paul ^e   Latgé, Jean Paul ^e   Denning, David W ^c   Dyer, Paul S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^e INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; GENE COMPONENTS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOMICS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FUNGI;

EID: 21844450884     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.05.045     Document Type: Article

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