Mating-type loci of heterothallic Diaporthe spp.: Homologous genes are present in opposite mating-types

Current Genetics

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 11-22

  Kanematsu, Satoko ^a   Adachi, Yoshihiko ^b   Ito, Tsutae ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRUIT TREE SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR TOHOKU REGION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Evolution; Mating type gene organization; Pyrenomycetes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; DIAPORTHE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; MATING TYPE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ASCOMYCOTA; DIAPORTHE; FUNGI; PHOMOPSIS; PYRENOMYCETES; SORDARIOMYCETES;

EID: 34447253558     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-007-0132-3     Document Type: Article

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