Mating-type genes and the genetic structure of a world-wide collection of the tomato pathogen Cladosporium fulvum

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 415-429

  Stergiopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Groenewald, Marizeth ^a,b   Staats, Martijn ^a   Lindhout, Pim ^a   Crous, Pedro W ^a,b   De Wit, Pierre J G M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AFLP; Ascomycete; Asexual; Genotypic diversity; Mating type genes; Polymorphism; Population differentiation; Race; Recombination

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CERCOSPORA BETICOLA; CLADOSPORIUM; CLADOSPORIUM FULVUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MAT1 1 GENE; MAT1 2 GENE; MATING TYPE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOSPHAERELLA GRAMINICOLA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PASSALORA FULVA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOMATO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLADOSPORIUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; HAPLOTYPES; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CERCOSPORA BETICOLA; CLADOSPORIUM FULVUM; FUNGI; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MYCOSPHAERELLA GRAMINICOLA; MYCOSPHAERELLACEAE; PASSALORA FULVA;

EID: 33947572881     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2006.11.004     Document Type: Article

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