Looking through the eyes of fungi: Molecular genetics of photoreception

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 5-15

  Herrera Estrella, Alfredo ^a   Horwitz, Benjamin A ^b  

^a Laboratorio Nacional de Genomica para la Biodiversidad   (Mexico)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPROTEIN; CRYPTOCHROME; DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTOLYASE; OPSIN; PHYTOCHROME; RIBOFLAVIN DERIVATIVE; SEMIQUINONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BASIDIOMYCETES; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLUE LIGHT; CHROMATOPHORE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS SPORE; GENOME; LIGHT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NEUROSPORA; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYCOMYCETES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED LIGHT; SHORT SURVEY; TRICHODERMA; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; LIGHT; PHOTORECEPTORS, MICROBIAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPORES, FUNGAL;

FUNGI;

EID: 33947225729     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05632.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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