Seeing the rainbow: light sensing in fungi

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 566-571

  Purschwitz, Janina ^a   Müller, Sylvia ^a   Kastner, Christian ^a   Fischer, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; PHYTOCHROME;

ASCOMYCETES; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASIDIOMYCETES; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; LIGHT; MYXOMYCETES; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACTIVATION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SENSOR; ZYGOMYCETES;

FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; OPSIN; PHOTORECEPTORS; PHYTOCHROME;

FUNGI;

EID: 33751247012     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2006.10.011     Document Type: Review

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