Asexual transmission, non-suppressiveness and meiotic extinction of small plasmid-like derivatives of the mitochondrial DNA in Neurospora crassa

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 90-101

  Hausner, Georg ^a,b   Nummy, Katherine A ^a   Bertrand, Helmut ^a  

^a Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asexual transmission; Maternal inheritance; Neurospora; Plasmid like mitochondrial element; Suppressiveness

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; FUNGAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOSPORE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; MYCELIUM; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CROSSES, GENETIC; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; MEIOSIS; MITOCHONDRIA; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PLASMIDS;

FUNGI; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 32444431829     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2005.10.004     Document Type: Article

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