Hydrophobin genes and their expression in conidial and aconidial Neurospora species

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 250-257

  Winefield, Robert D ^a,b   Hilario, Elena ^a   Beever, Ross E ^c   Haverkamp, Richard G ^b   Templeton, Matthew D ^a  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Aconidiate; Ascomycete; ccg 2; Clock controlled gene; Conidiation; Easily wettable; Rodlet layer

Indexed keywords

HYDROPHOBIN;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA AFRICANA; NEUROSPORA DISCRETA; NEUROSPORA DODGEI; NEUROSPORA INTERMEDIA; NEUROSPORA LINEOLATA; NEUROSPORA PANNONICA; NEUROSPORA SITOPHILA; NEUROSPORA TERRICOLA; NEUROSPORA TETRASPERMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPORES, FUNGAL;

NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA AFRICANA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NEUROSPORA DISCRETA; NEUROSPORA DODGEI; NEUROSPORA INTERMEDIA; NEUROSPORA LINEOLATA; NEUROSPORA PANNONICA; NEUROSPORA SITOPHILA; NEUROSPORA TERRICOLA; NEUROSPORA TETRASPERMA;

EID: 33847336941     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2006.11.008     Document Type: Article

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