Mating type loci of Sporisorium reilianum: Novel pattern with three a and multiple b specificities

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1317-1327

  Schirawski, Jan ^a   Heinze, Bernadette ^a   Wagenknecht, Martin ^a   Kahmann, Regine ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; PHEROMONE; PHEROMONE RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; USTILAGO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; HYPHAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHEROMONES; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, PHEROMONE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; USTILAGO; VARIATION (GENETICS);

FUNGI; SPORISORIUM REILIANUM; USTILAGO MAYDIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 23844488722     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.4.8.1317-1327.2005     Document Type: Article

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