Multiple layers of temporal and spatial control regulate accumulation of the fruiting body-specific protein APP in Sordaria macrospora and Neurospora crassa

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 602-614

  Nowrousian, Minou ^a   Piotrowski, Markus ^a   Kück, Ulrich ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abundant perithecial protein; Fruiting body development; Gene expression; Neurospora crassa; Sordaria macrospora

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANT PERITHECIAL PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; ASCOSPORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FRUITING BODY; FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SORDARIA MACROSPORA; SORDARIALES; SPOROGENESIS; VEGETATIVE GROWTH; WILD TYPE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL ADHESION; FRUITING BODIES, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SORDARIALES; TIME FACTORS;

NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SORDARIA MACROSPORA;

EID: 34249304779     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2006.09.009     Document Type: Article

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