A genetic selection for circadian output pathway mutations in neurospora crassa

Genetics

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 119-129

  Vitalini, Michael W ^a   Morgan, Louis W ^a   March, Irene J ^a   Bell Pedersen, Deborah ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN CCG1; PROTEIN CCG2; PROTEIN FRQ; PROTEIN WC1; PROTEIN WC2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; MODEL; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TIME;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DENSITOMETRY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOTYPE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OSCILLOMETRY; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 2942566158     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.167.1.119     Document Type: Article

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