Homology effects in Neurospora crassa

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 254, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 182-189

  Catalanotto, Caterina ^a   Nolan, Tony ^a   Cogoni, Carlo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Meiotic silencing by unpaired DNA (MSUD); Neurospora; Posttranscriptional gene silencing (PTGS); Quelling; Repeat induced point mutation (RIP); siRNA

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEIC ACID; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

BIOACCUMULATION; EUKARYOTE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE SILENCING; GENOME; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSGENE; TRANSPOSON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; REVIEW;

EUKARYOTA; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 33644870843     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2005.00037.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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