Mitotic recombination accelerates adaptation in the fungus Aspergillus nidulans

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 0648-0653

  Schoustra, Sijmen E ^a,b   Debets, Alfons J M ^a   Slakhorst, Marijke ^a   Hoekstra, Rolf F ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; HAPLOIDY; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CROSS BREEDING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DIPLOIDY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HAPLOIDY; MITOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 34247578808     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030068     Document Type: Article

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