Recent progress, developments, and issues in comparative fungal genomics

Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-30

  Hsiang, Tom ^a   Baillie, David L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; BLAST; Data mining; Fungal genes

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 3042666911     PISSN: 07060661     EISSN: 17152992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07060660409507108     Document Type: Article

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