A versatile and efficient gene-targeting system for Aspergillus nidulans

Genetics

Volumn 172, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1557-1566

  Nayak, Tania ^a   Szewczyk, Edyta ^a   Oakley, C Elizabeth ^a   Osmani, Aysha ^a   Ukil, Leena ^a   Murray, Sandra L ^b   Hynes, Michael J ^b   Osmani, Stephen A ^a   Oakley, Berl R ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; KU ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FUNGAL GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENOME; HETEROKARYON; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MARKER GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NKUA GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS;

EID: 33645223703     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.052563     Document Type: Article

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