Spontaneous mutations in the ammonium transport gene AMT4 of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Genetics

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 631-644

  Kim, Kwang Seo ^a   Feild, Eithne ^a,b   King, Natalie ^a,c   Yaoi, Takuro ^a,d   Kustu, Sydney ^a   Inwood, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b State University of New York ^*  (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d Panomics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM NITRATE; AMT PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBON DIOXIDE; METHYLAMMONIUM; RH PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMMONIUM TRANSPORT; AMT4 GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC CROSS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; ION TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHI GENE; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CARBON DIOXIDE; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOTYPE; METHYLAMINES; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NITROGEN; PEPTIDES; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII;

EID: 22144462857     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.041574     Document Type: Article

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