Properties of unpaired DNA required for efficient silencing in Neurospora crassa

Genetics

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 131-150

  Lee, Dong W ^a   Seong, Kye Yong ^a   Pratt, Robert J ^a   Baker, Kevin ^a   Aramayo, Rodolfo ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOSPORE; ASCOSPORE MATURATION 1 GENE; BASE PAIRING; CHROMOSOME; DIPLOIDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC SILENCING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALLELES; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE SILENCING; GENES, REPORTER; GENOTYPE; HISTIDINE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MEIOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 2942615243     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.167.1.131     Document Type: Article

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